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Palliative Domiciliary Service provided by Malaysia Ministry of Health

Health Clinics in the states of Selangor, Kedah, Perak and Penang

Services Offered

Recent expansion of existing domiciliary service into providing palliative care for patients who are discharge home from hospitals or choose to remain at home.

SPICT Uses

SPICT is used as a tool to help practitioners identify patients for palliative domiciliary service referrals.

Selayang Hospital

Kuala Lumpur

Services Offered

Specialized palliative unit that offers inpatient, outpatient, walk-in and consult service.

Other services includes regular visits to a number of non specialist hospitals and local clinics.

SPICT Uses

We just started introducing SPICT in consult service ( in non palliative units) to identify patients with palliative care needs for palliative referrals or to initiate goals of care discussion by primary team.

Other information

Will gradually also introduce this at the community/ health clinics setting soon