Resumen

MANRIQUE-HERNANDEZ, Eliana Katherine  y  SANCHEZ-DUQUE, Jorge Andrés. Palliative care in primary health care. MEDISAN [online]. 2024, vol.28, n.2  Epub 30-Abr-2024. ISSN 1029-3019.

Nowadays, the offer of specialized palliative care has been overcome by the demand, reason why care to patients with terminal illness or in end-of-life period is usually in charge of the doctor from primary care level. In that sense, primary palliative care includes the diagnosis, palliative treatment, early planning, administration and coordination of multidisciplinary interventions and referring to specialized care when it is necessary and the service is available. In this respect, some elements on the topic are shortly exposed in this work and, also, a practical and easy implementation algorithm in primary care is proposed that will allow identifying population suffering from pain in those stages, with differentiation as for neoplastic or non neoplastic affections.

Palabras clave : palliative care; hospice care; pain management; terminally ill; terminal care; primary health care; rural health services.

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