A terminal phase patient who can return home because of a multi-professional conference--considerations for multi-professional conference

Palliative care has been provided in our sub-acute hospital ward and multi professional conferences have also taken place in order to enhance care. In this paper, we present a 72-year-old female who has suffered from relapse of lung cancer and was able to return home because of an execution of multi-professional conferences. We also present considerations that were carried out in multi-professional conferences. We found some of the important factors for carrying an efficient conference are advance preparations in ahead, punctuality of the conference, a conference place that is kept in the ward, coping with nurse calls and participation of nutritionists. A timely conference, sharing information among the team and the education about a dying process are some of the future subjects.