New Sight of Palliative Medicine: Updates and Future Directions

Dear Colleagues,

The aim of palliative care is to relieve symptoms and improve quality of life in patients who are facing problems associated with life-threatening illness, regardless of diagnosis. This includes the correct assessment and treatment of symptoms such as pain, fatigue, nausea, anxiety, and breathlessness, but also meeting the psychosocial and spiritual needs of patients and their families. Palliative care uses a team approach including several different professions to support the patient in living as actively as possible until their death. In the recently proposed revision of the definition of palliative care, the need for evidence-based practice is emphasized.

This Special Issue aims to include up-to-date reviews and original articles on new treatment strategies for pain and other symptoms in palliative care patients, when to terminate or adjust treatments, how to improve symptom assessment, prognostication, and the identification of palliative care needs. In addition, articles on educational and research aspects of palliative medicine and care are also welcome in this Issue.

Dr. Linda Björkhem-Bergman
Guest Editor

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