Palliative and end of life care: strategic framework for action
This framework sets out a vision for the next five years, outcomes and ten commitments to support improvements in the delivery of palliative and end of life care across Scotland.
Footnotes
1. World Health Organisation (1990). Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care. WHO Technical Report Series 804. Geneva: WHO.
2. Sepúlveda C, Marlin A, Yoshida T, Ullrich A (2002). Palliative Care: The World Health Organization’s Global Perspective. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 24(2):91–96.
3. http://www.who.int/cancer/palliative/definition/en/, accessed 20 November 2015.
4. WHO fact sheet on palliative care, Fact sheet N°402, July 2015.
5. This definition is an adaptation of one used in a 2015 report from the National Institutes of Health in the USA. Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life. Committee on Approaching Death: Addressing Key End of Life Issues; Institute of Medicine. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2015.
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