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Palliative care
When active treatment is no longer effective, supportive and safe passage from life to death
Curative care
Aggressive care goal and intent is to cure disease, not giving up hope
Criteria for admission - hospice
Dr must certify pt illness is terminal w 6months or less to live, willing to forego further curative treatment. Planned according to comfort not life support.
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