**4.3 Inpatient palliative care units**

These are the units in a hospital where the primarily responsible official is an internal medicine specialist or general surgeon and recommendations and support are frequently received from specialized palliative care staff [4]. In recent years, an increased number of hospital-based palliative care programs have been available to palliative care patients. General patient services in these clinics may not be appropriate for cancer patients with specific physical and psychosocial problems and who require a specialized approach. When a patient's care at home becomes harder in the advanced stage of the disease, palliative care centers accept the patient and support both the patient and his/her family in terms of pain relief, nutrition, psychological and social support, care, and training of the family [1, 4]. These units have improved care quality and reduced care costs for complex, high-risk patients who suffer from pain and other symptoms and whose basic needs are not met adequately [1, 17].

## **4.4 Inpatient consultation services**

Providing services through consultancy is the most frequently used information method from past to present. Consulting services are an on-demand evaluation and management service [8, 10]. Clinical care may be requested by clinical physicians or other health professionals according to the care needs of inpatients. In palliative care, inpatient counseling services are provided by an interdisciplinary team. The team includes social workers, priests, psychologists, volunteers and therapists, and primarily doctors and nurses trained in palliative care services [4, 24]. This system provides uninterrupted service every day and every hour of the week. It is advantageous for it to be cost-effective because it contains fast, low-resource applications [4, 8, 24].
