palliative care http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDDRA/10059513 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D010166 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/SNOMEDCT/103735009 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Palliative_care https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palliative_care https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29483 An interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating suffering among people with serious, complex illness. Within the published literature, many definitions of palliative care exist; most notably, the World Health Organization describes palliative care as "an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual.” Z51.5 encounter for palliative care care