Life quality for the terminal patient

Authors

  • Oscar Velásquez Acosta Universidad de Antioquia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.iatreia.3547

Keywords:

Terminal patient, palliative Care, Quality of Life, Doctor-patient relationship

Abstract

Terminally ill patients are defined from the therapeutic and biologic points of view, and the applicability of the quality of life concept to these patients is explained. Such quality depends to a great extent, on several psychosocial aspects of life that are not considered by the biomedical model of patient care predominant nowadays and they include the interpersonal, social, and cultural relationships as well as the economic, emotional, spiritual and intellectual ones.

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Author Biography

Oscar Velásquez Acosta, Universidad de Antioquia

Profesor Titular, Departamento de Cirugía, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia; Director, Clínica de Alivio del Dolor y Cuidados Paliativos, Hospital Universitario San Vicente de Paúl y Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia,

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Published

1994-02-19

How to Cite

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Velásquez Acosta O. Life quality for the terminal patient. Iatreia [Internet]. 1994 Feb. 19 [cited 2025 Dec. 5];7(2):pág. 80-83. Available from: https://revistas.udea.edu.co/index.php/iatreia/article/view/3547

Issue

Vol 7, No 2

Section

Reflection articles

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