What Is the Role of Palliative Care in Outpatient Oncology?
Palliative care should be viewed as a supportive element of care for patients with chronic illnesses at all stages of their disease.
Palliative care should be viewed as a supportive element of care for patients with chronic illnesses at all stages of their disease.
Private equity firms are transforming hospice care and might be jeopardizing patient care in the process.
NP-delivered, home-based prepalliative care improves end-of-life planning and decreases hospital and emergency department visits.
In a study of end-of-life care for children with cancer, healthcare resource use measures were seen as less important than were patient-reported outcomes.
APP discusses the benefits of early integration of palliative care in patients with cancer as well as chronic heart, lung, and neurologic diseases.
For patients with long-term neurological conditions, a short-term integrated palliative care intervention does not alter palliative care outcomes.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new challenges to palliative care teams.
Researchers administered a survey to members of the American Geriatrics Society to better understand their views on physician-assisted suicide.
Implementation of hospital-based palliative care service was associated with a 10% reduction in ICU use, lowering healthcare costs and improving quality of death for terminal patients.
Moral distress levels vary with perceived use of care; higher levels of distress seen with less frequent use.