0 (of a drug or medical treatment) reducing pain without curing the cause of the pain: --
Some of the palliative strategies do not make sense.
Short-term, palliative measures were taken which gave the appearance that the problems were being addressed.
The success of chemotherapy as a form of palliative treatment depends on the type of tumour.
Older people facing a terminal illness may want to choose palliative care only.
1 a drug or medical treatment that reduces pain without curing the cause of the pain: --
Knitting became a palliative for Mary as the long miserable days stretched out ahead.
We want long-term solutions, not short-term palliatives.
The substance has been consumed as a palliative by indigenous groups in Appalachia.
Most of the AIDS research community were either working on vaccines for prevention or on stronger palliatives.
After application of the palliative option, approximately half of the patients persisted in their request.
Participants were asked to narrate about their engagement in creative activities at a palliative intervention program.
The consistency of our findings with previous reports regarding pediatric palliative care, however, provides credibility to our data.
Given the challenges of managing heart failure, the need for improved palliative care, and skilled multidisciplinary support, a continuing education program was designed.
Annual palliative care consultations for patients who subsequently died in the hospital were retrieved.
Disease/medical information was most wanted at the transition from curative to palliative care and least wanted at patient death.
Of the palliative options mentioned, some, such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery, could also be life-prolonging or even curative.
I mentioned previously that the palliative carers, not unlike others in the helping professions, are wounded healers-choosing their profession as a way of healing.
