title: Helping patients with serious illness live well through the promotion of adaptive coping: a report from the improving outpatient palliative care (IPAL-OP) initiative.
abstract: Continuity outpatient palliative care practice is characterized by long relationships between patients, families, and palliative care clinicians and by periods of relative stability when the disease and resultant symptoms are less active. Compared to inpatient palliative care, outpatient practice requires a greater focus on encouraging healthy coping and on helping patients to live well with serious illness. This paper discusses the opportunities to promote adaptive coping in the delivery of outpatient palliative care.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Palliative Care, Massachusets General Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Juliet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jacobsen
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kvale
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rabow
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rinaldi
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Weissman
authors.forename: Vicki
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Jackson
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003142:Communication; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010045:Outpatients / Q000523:psychology*; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000628:therapy; D013315:Stress, Psychological