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Proposal of an integrated care model for a palliative therapeutic intervention in health care

Abstract:

Palliative Care (PC) is a value and a responsibility of the health and social systems. Because of the high demand for services for the comprehensive and humanized care of the patient with a chronic, degenerative and irreversible diseases, it is necessary to create a model of comprehensive PC to execute it in a population that requires it. PCs are an internationally recognized right of the person that must be provided at three levels of care: primary (basic), secondary (specialized care - SC), and tertiary (Palliative Care Units - PCU). Primary care (PC) is responsible for palliative home care and must guarantee it when there is no crucial complexity. The present bibliographic review proposes a comprehensive palliative care model that justifies therapeutic interventions to obtain well-being or alleviation of suffering in patients who attend primary health care.