Palliative Care Textbook

Evidence-Based Assessment, Treatment Choices, Communication, Hospice Planning, and Final-Days Management for Clinicians

von Northbridge Medical Press

306 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Some of the most difficult decisions in medicine begin after the diagnosis is already known.A patient is becoming more symptomatic. Disease-directed treatment is offering less benefit. A family wants certainty that medicine cannot provide. Hospice may need to be discussed, but the timing and language matter. Later, the clinical priorities may shift again as dying becomes imminent and comfort assumes greater importance. Palliative Care Textbook 2026/2027 is structured around these transitions in care. It brings assessment, treatment decisions, communication, hospice planning, and final-days management into one clinically oriented resource for professionals caring for people with serious and life-limiting illness.

Rather than separating symptom treatment from the decisions and conversations surrounding it, the book approaches palliative care as a continuous clinical process. Readers can strengthen their approach to:

- assessing symptom burden and determining what requires intervention;- weighing treatment choices against prognosis, goals, burdens, and expected benefit;- clearer conversations about serious illness and changing priorities;- navigating goals-of-care discussions and shared decision-making;- recognizing when hospice planning should become part of the clinical conversation;- adapting management as a patient enters the final phase of life;- supporting patients and families while maintaining sound clinical judgment.

The emphasis is practical: What needs to be assessed now? What can still be improved? Which intervention is proportionate? What does the patient understand? What decision needs to be made next?

For physicians, residents, advanced practice patrons, nurses, and other healthcare professionals involved in serious-illness care, this textbook is designed to support both bedside reasoning and continued study. Its value lies not in reducing palliative medicine to a checklist, but in helping patrons connect symptoms, treatment options, communication, patient priorities, and transitions of care.When cure is no longer the only measure of good medicine, clinical skill still matters enormously.

Build a more deliberate approach to serious illness-from the first palliative assessment to the decisions that shape a patient's final days.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175947145
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2026
• Größe: 279 x 216 mm
• Verlag: Independently published