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    Background One of the barriers to the integration of palliative care within the process of patient care and treatment is the lack of awareness of patients about palliative care. In order to develop efficient resources to improve patient awareness, comprehensive information is required to determine the specific aspects of palliative care where a paucity of evidence on patient awareness exists….

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    When patients become seriously ill, clinicians must engage in difficult conversations to ensure that the care provided aligns with patient expectations, goals and values. In these situations, clinicians tend to focus on medical facts, present treatment options like choices on a restaurant menu, give detailed explanations for each option and request that patients or surrogates choose among them by…

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    When patients become seriously ill, clinicians must engage in difficult conversations to ensure that the care provided aligns with patient expectations, goals and values. In these situations, clinicians tend to focus on medical facts, present treatment options like choices on a restaurant menu, give detailed explanations for each option and request that patients or surrogates choose among them by…

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    Objectives There have been many models of providing oncology and palliative care to hospitals. Many patients will use the hospital non-electively or semielectively, and a large proportion are likely to be in the last years of life. We describe our multidisciplinary service to treatable but not curable cancer patients at University Hospitals Sussex. The team was a mixture of clinical nurse…

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