Collaboration between physicians and a hospital-based palliative care team in a general acute-care hospital in Japan.docVIP

Tamiya et al. BMC Palliative Care 2010, 9:13 /1472-684X/9/13 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Collaboration between physicians and a Research article hospital-based palliative care team in a general acute-care hospital in Japan Nanako Tamiya*1, Mikako Okuno?1, Masayo Kashiwakgi?1, Mariko Nishikitani?2 and Etsuko Aruga?3 Abstract Background: Continual collaboration between physicians and hospital-based palliative care teams represents a very important contributor to focusing on patients symptoms and maintaining their quality of life during all stages of their illness. However, the traditio