Operational Guidelines for Planning and Implementation in District Hospitals
A Guidance and Resource Package for Country Offices for Coordination, Planning, Key Messages and Actions
First Revised Edition
March 2000
- Conference summary report
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 23 July 2018
Meeting Report
A survival guide for clinicans.
3rd edition.
In resource restriced countries
Tuberculosis (TB) is, and should be, a curable disease; however, each year significant numbers of patients acquire or develop drug-resistant TB, which has a much lower cure rate. Patients with drug-resistant TB have a high prevalence of symptoms; hence, staff caring for these patients should h...ave some familiarity with palliative care, so that general palliative care principles are available to all patients. The timely identification, and addressing, of adverse events occurring during the treatment course is considered as general palliative care for those receiving curative treatment. This publication summarizes the general palliative care approach, which is recommended for use in settings and services that occasionally treat palliative care patients, but do not provide palliative care as the main focus of their work. The review focuses on 18 high TB priority countries of the WHO European Region.
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