In the HAART era, the false dichotomy of curative vs palliative care for patients with HIV/AIDS must be supplanted by a more integrated model to provide comprehensive care for patients with advanced HIV disease and their families.
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jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/290/6/806
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Palliative Care vs. Curative Care; S from Canada inquires…; “My husband has been living with Pseudomyxoma Peritonei, specifically Mucinous Adenocarcinoma originating with the Appendix, for several years. Many people on this planet are living with palliative care, not only for cancer, but for many other...
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pmppals.blogspot.com/2009/03/palliative-vs-curative-car...
pmppals.blogspot.com/2009/03/palliative-vs-curative-care.html
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This distinction between palliative and curative care seems easy enough. However in reality, the palliative/curative divide is not so easily discerned.
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www.medicareadvocacy.org/Archives/ArchivedPages/Hospice...
www.medicareadvocacy.org/Archives/ArchivedPages/Hospice_PalliativeVsCurative.htm
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They want to change the dichotomous model of curative vs. palliative care to one that stresses “simultaneous care,” employing aspects of both palliative and life-prolonging treatment that are most likely to benefit the patient.
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www.acpinternist.org/archives/june06/palliative.htm
www.acpinternist.org/archives/june06/palliative.htm
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In contrast to traditional models of care--which emphasize curative treatment until death and offer little, if any, palliative care--the program would integrate palliative care into curative care earlier in the patient's disease process.
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xnet.kp.org/permanentejournal/spring03/palcare.html
xnet.kp.org/permanentejournal/spring03/palcare.html
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Hospice care is palliative, but all palliative isn't hospice. Curative care focuses on quantity of life and prolonging of life. Palliative focuses on quality of life and death, and views death as a natural part of life.
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www.fayettehealthdept.org/fchdnewsletters/2009healthbea...
www.fayettehealthdept.org/fchdnewsletters/2009healthbeats/HealthBeat_Mar.2009.pdf
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Critical Care ... Those who believed in traditional causes of epilepsy also endorsed traditional treatment for it, though they did not see such treatment as curative. Those who believed in a medical treatment, did however see such treatment as curative.
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www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/7517345
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Differentiate between curative and palliative care ... Some at the end of life choose curative care. Others may choose palliative care. Some choose to avail themselves of a multitude of vigorous, invasive and even painful treatments and diagnostic procedures. These choices indicate that the individual has opted for a...
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www.nurseceusonline.com/viewcourse/20-50900.htm
www.nurseceusonline.com/viewcourse/20-50900.htm
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PALLIATIVE "VERSUS" CURATIVE OR DISEASE-FOCUSED CARE; Much of modern medicine targets treatments at disease cure, or at least at limiting or slowing disease progression. In so doing, improvement in the patient's symptoms or functional status are welcome and expected byproducts of the disease-focused treatment.
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focus.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/5/4/459
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