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Palliative care |
When active treatment is no longer effective, supportive and safe passage from life to death |
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Curative care |
Aggressive care goal and intent is to cure disease, not giving up hope |
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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. |
