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Despite medical advances, patients with life-limiting illnesses still suffer significantly. Palliative care emerged a half century ago as an ethos based on compassion and care for patients and their families to relieve their suffering. It entails a paradigm shift from the biomedical model to the biopsychospiritual model. Palliative care is recognised by the World Health Organization as an essential part of the continuum of universal health coverage. In 2014, the World Health Assembly approved a resolution on \"Strengthening of palliative care as a component of comprehensive care throughout the life course\". Despite Hong Kong's relatively good local palliative care service coverage for patients who died of cancer and end-stage renal failure, service gaps for palliative care do exist among our ageing population with non-malignant life-limiting illnesses. We strongly urge the Hong Kong Government to develop our local palliative care policy in response to the World Health Assembly's resolution. Growing international and local evidence demonstrates the impacts of palliative care on patient outcomes, caregivers, and health care. Such outcomes can be service-based, disease-based, or symptom/suffering-based. The goal of palliative care is to relieve health-related suffering. Evidence-based management of pain, breathlessness, and psychospiritual suffering are discussed. Care in the end-of-life phase should be an integral part of palliative care, promoting patient choice, advance care planning, and good death.","is_dataset_classified":null,"base_score":3.332204510175204,"endowment":3.332204510175204,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"views":0,"has_version_chain":false,"is_dataset":false,"is_oa":false,"pmid":"30065118","pmcid":null,"openalex_id":"https://openalex.org/W2886481800","authors":[],"funders":[],"total_grants":0,"fwci":1.7362,"citation_percentile":0.84830128,"influential_citations":0,"citation_trend":[{"year":2019,"count":1},{"year":2020,"count":2},{"year":2021,"count":5},{"year":2022,"count":5},{"year":2023,"count":3},{"year":2024,"count":9},{"year":2025,"count":2}],"oa_status":"gold","license":"cc-by-nc-nd","oa_locations":[{"url":"https://www.hkmj.org/system/files/hkmj187310.pdf","host_type":"journal"},{"url":"https://www.hkmj.org/system/files/hkmj187310.pdf","host_type":"publisher"},{"url":"https://doi.org/10.12809/hkmj187310","host_type":"journal"},{"url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30065118","host_type":"repository"}],"fields_of_study":["Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues","Patient Dignity and Privacy","Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health","Dyspnea","Hong Kong","Humans","Needs Assessment","Neoplasms","Pain Management","Palliative Care","Practice Guidelines as Topic","World Health Organization"],"mesh_terms":["Dyspnea","Hong Kong","Humans","Neoplasms","Palliative Care","World Health Organization","Practice Guidelines as Topic","Needs Assessment","Pain Management"],"keywords":["Palliative care","Medicine","Curative care","Health care","Nursing","Advance care planning","End-of-life care","Population","Family medicine","Ambulatory care","Economic growth","Environmental health","Pain Management","evidence-based medicine"],"sdg_mappings":[{"sdg_number":0,"sdg_label":"Good health and well-being"}],"linked_datasets":[],"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"database_accessions":[],"source":"live","citation_network_status":"fetched"},"created_at":"2026-08-12T12:58:40.015303Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}