The aim of palliative care is to:
a. relieve symptoms.
b. hasten death.
c. postpone death.
d. make the person comfortable while the curativetreatment is occurring.
a
The aim of palliative care is to relieve symptoms and
make the person comfortable rather than to hasten or post
pone death.
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