Sentence examples for palliative from from inspiring English sources

These rules were primarily based on the number of fractions given in a course of treatment combined with other information such as body-region and time-to-death to distinguish palliative from curative treatments [ 4, 8].

The proportion of cancer patients in each country receiving palliative care from their GP ranged from 61.4% (Belgium) to 73.9% (the Netherlands) (Table  1).

Conservative treatment dropped from 53.3% to 10.3% and palliative treatment from 6% to 2% (figure 1).

Do these quality indicator scores differ between the cancer patients who received palliative care from their general practitioner and those who did not receive palliative care from their GP?

We need to uncouple palliative care from death and dying.

She has a postgraduate certificate in end-of-life and palliative care from New York University.

The word palliative comes from the Latin word palliare which means "to cloak".

Options are limited: palliative care from more drugs (benzodiazepines and anti-epileptics), adjustment through psychotherapy (of the cognitive-behavioral or straight-talking variety), a pair of sunglasses.

Those getting palliative care from the start, the authors said, reported less depression and happier lives as measured on scales for pain, nausea, mobility, worry and other problems.

Alastair McAlpine, a palliative pediatrician from Cape Town, South Africa, decided to present a few of these bigger philosophical questions to his patients.

I've gotten an education on hospice and palliative care from readers, many of them doctors.