[Outpatient palliative care – a multiprofessional challenge].

Life-threatening illness and the dying of a person presents a complex and particularly burdensome challenge for the person affected as well as for their relatives. This also applies to the professionals involved in caring and supporting the terminally ill patient. For this reason, palliative care has become a pioneer of a networked multi-professional and multi-perspective thinking and acting. In hardly any other medical field so many different professional groups and specialized disciplines work together in such an intensive manner. The rapid supply of drugs is an essential part of the specialized outpatient palliative care concept (SAPV). This cooperation is exemplified in this article.