Quantitative Evaluations in Therapeutic Life Review in Palliative Care.

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Palliative care aims to provide whole-person care by alleviating pain and other distressing symptoms, integrating psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care, improving quality of life and death without hastening or postponing death, and, where possible, positively influencing the course of an illness [1]. Palliative care, which was once just for the dying, has expanded to encompass patients with chronic incurable illnesses, and in some countries is referred to as hospice care. Palliative care practitioners attempt to assist patients and their family finish life and prepare for death, regardless of the patient's prognosis, and acknowledge the patient as a human with a unique existence