In palliative care, quality improvement is concerned with the maximization of quality of patient’s life. Several practices are implemented such as relief from physical and psychosocial symptoms; communication about prognosis, patient care with personalization and compassion, planning and prevention of crises and opportunities for comfortable life closure etc.
Extensive evidences such as different kinds of medications and numerous interventions are available to treat pain in palliative care supported by strong evidence (Carr DB, Bloch R, Balk EM et al., 2004). In addition various guideline based treatments can provide significant reduction of severity in pain and improvements in quality of life (Chang VT, & Kasimis B., 2002). However various existing studies have exemplified that such medications and interventions have not properly executed into medical and nursing practice. In a study of a patient with terminal cancer provided initial oncology consultations, alternative to chemotherapy was offered by less than half of oncologists.
姑息治疗，质量改进是对患者生活质量的最大化。几种做法如从生理和心理症状缓解实现通信；预后，个性化和同情病人的护理，对舒适生活的封闭等规划和预防危机和机遇
广泛的证据，如不同种类的药物和众多的干预治疗有效的姑息治疗疼痛的强有力的证据支持（卡尔分贝，布洛赫R，犹豫EM等人。，2004）。此外，各种基于指南的治疗可以提供在疼痛和生活质量的改善程度显著减少（ChangVT，与kasimis B，2002）。然而，现有的各种研究已经证明，这些药物和干预措施没有正确执行到医疗和护理实践。在晚期癌症病人的研究最初的肿瘤进行磋商，替代化疗是少于一半的肿瘤学家提供。
