Table 2 Integrated Palliative Care (IPC) Criteria

1. Discussion of illness limitations and prognosis.

2. Recommendations for conducting a whole patient assessment including the patient’s physical, social, psychological, and spiritual issues, their family and community setting.

3. Recommendations for when to make these assessments (e.g. At baseline and periodically thereafter).

4. Recommendations on when palliative care should be integrated.

5. Assessment of the patient’s goals for care.

6. Continuous goal adjustment as the illness and the person’s disease progresses.

7. Palliative care interventions to reduce suffering as needed.

8. Advance care planning.

9. Recommendation of involving a palliative care team (interdisciplinary team, palliative care consultation or other palliative care services).

10. Recommendations on care during the last hours of living.

11. Recommendations on grief and bereavement care.