title: Complex, chronic, and end-of-life care: the interface between critical care and palliative care.
abstract: Palliative care is a medical subspecialty devoted to palliating symptoms and spending time communicating with patients from the onset of chronic illness through the end of life. Time is one of the gifts a palliative care team gives a patient and family. Ironically, adding time to care may help to decrease critical care costs and mortality. Although palliative care lacks specific funding and national recognition, inpatient, outpatient, hospice, and home palliative programs are emerging to provide coverage across the continuum.
authors.affiliation: Memorial Hermann Home Health and Hospice, Houston, Texas 77032, USA.
authors.forename: Wyona M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Freysteinson
mesh_terms: D032722:Advance Care Planning / Q000458:organization & administration; D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003422:Critical Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D017051:Hospice Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States