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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.