1.A soup in the palliative care：case studies of a service developed by our hospital
Hideaki Kawabata ; Naoki Kakihara ; Chiaki Taga ; Masanori Nishikawa ; Yoko Nishitani ; Kota Asano ; Mariko Nose ; Miwa Sakuma ; Eiichiro Kanda ; Masako Nishimura ; Makiko Yamaguchi ; Osamu Ikawa ; Katsuhiko Masuda
Palliative Care Research 2015;10(1):913-916
Palliative care team（PCT）, nutrition support team（NST）and office of nutrition in our hospital developed a special soup service, which was served for ten patients faced with terminal cancer. The members of PCT, NST and the Cook served a special soup to ten patients. Nine of them could taste the soup without vomiting although they had anorexia. It was a good result. The number of days from the last day tasting the soup to death or hospital transfer was between 3 and 20 days（12.5 days on average）, and the number of times they could taste the soup was between 1 and 3（2.0 times on average）. Tasting the soup supports the strength of living, and might bring an improvement in spiritual quality of life.
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