Abstract
This project provides an overview of the standard and regular implementation of palliative care versus early implementation of palliative care in patients with chronic or terminal illnesses. Palliative care is an essential component of healthcare that focuses on improving the quality of life and providing support to patients through holistic elements to patients and their families facing chronic and terminal illnesses. With evidence-based research, many articles have been published with implementation of early palliative care showing improvement in patient and even caregiver quality of life. This project includes evidence gathered from mixed methods of systematic review of existing literature, randomized controlled trials, and qualitative studies involving a population of patients with a range of serious illnesses requiring palliative care. For this benchmark review, the data compares various factors within research to conclude improvement of patient quality of life.
Date of publication
Fall 12-3-2023
Document Type
MSN Capstone Project
Language
english
Persistent identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/10950/4522
Degree
Masters in Nursing Education
Recommended Citation
Daniels, Rebecca, "Palliative Care and Quality of Life Improvement: A Benchmark Study" (2023). MSN Capstone Projects. Paper 295.
http://hdl.handle.net/10950/4522