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Palliative care is a complex care
  1. Silvia Tanzi1,2,
  2. Carlo Peruselli3 and
  3. Matteo Moroni2,4
  1. 1 Palliative Care Unit, Azienda USL-IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy
  2. 2 Trieste University Integrated Health Authority, Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
  3. 3 Former President of SICP, Italian Society of Palliative Care, Biella, Italy
  4. 4 Palliative Care Unit, ASL Ravenna, Ravenna Medical Center, Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
  1. Correspondence to Professor Silvia Tanzi; silvia.tanzi{at}ausl.re.it

https://doi.org/10.1136/spcare-2023-004553

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    We carefully read the review Acute palliative care units: characteristics, activities and outcomes - scoping review; the organisational model proposed in the article, while interesting, seems to us an inappropriate and simplistic response to the needs of an increasing number of patients with palliative care needs.

    As known, all the palliative care needs of a population cannot be met by palliative care specialists alone. Providers across many care settings and specialty areas, with core palliative care skills and supported by specialist palliative care team (SPCT), can provide appropriate responses to the needs of patients and their families.

    Moreover, since many years, the specialist palliative care support teams within hospitals are the model universally recognised to early and appropriately intercept patients with complex palliative care needs.1 These patients, suffering from multiple diseases not only oncological, require gradual, …

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    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

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