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Palliative care from diagnosis to death
The BMJ
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- Presented by Scott Murray, professor of primary palliative care at the university of Edinburgh, as the video describes them
- May be out of date. Uploaded 9 years ago, in an area where guidance changes.
Aimed at clinicians, students or researchers. Education, not medical advice.
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Scott Murray explains the benefits of early palliative care based on three typical trajectories of functional decline near the end of life.
Many people still associate palliative care with care in the terminal stage of cancer, and patients with cancer remain more likely to receive it than those with other illnesses. It is often delayed until the last weeks or days of life once the illness is advanced and disease focused treatments are no longer effective. However, late palliative care is a missed opportunity to do better for patients, families, and health services. Scott Murray, professor of primary palliative care at the university of Edinburgh, and colleagues set out a rationale for early palliative care based on the three typical trajectories of functional decline towards the end of life (rapid, intermittent, and gradual)Why it's here
From a health institutionThe BMJ is on Rounds' list of health institutions, and this upload is one of its most-watched lectures or explainers. Nobody has recommended it in the communities yet, so it ranks below community picks.