Despite considerable efforts to improve the quality of end-of-life care in the United States, a new retrospective study led by American Cancer Society (ACS) researchers revealed that close to half of ...

The head of the Society of Palliative Medicine is warning inequities in palliative care around the country will only deepen if roles looking at a national policy are dropped. Health New Zealand is ...

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You can prepare for your palliative care consultation by making a list of your symptoms and how they affect your everyday activities. You’ll also want to bring a list of medications you take and ...

Where the patient consultation is as an outpatient ... conference and the clinicians’ notes is completed by the CNC using a template adapted by the Palliative and Supportive Care service from the Gold ...

there is a lack of complex updated review of the impact of in-hospital palliative care consult service. The objective is to update information on the impact of palliative care consult service in ...

We found that one-third (36%) of hospitals had a palliative care consult service, where half (49%) of these permitted anyone, including family, to call the consult. Two-thirds (68%) of the palliative ...

3 Ariadne Labs at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 4 Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care, Boston, Massachusetts ...

New research comparing different approaches to dementia care for people with ... (utilizing Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging Care Consultation Program), or usual care. "The study's results ...

Terminally ill patients could choose assisted dying due to the lack of palliative care, a senior nursing chief has admitted. The head of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) told Kim Leadbeater’s ...

Patients who received palliative care consultation had a Charlson Comorbidity Index of 9.4 (plus or minus 3.3) versus 9.1 (plus or minus 3.5) for patients who did not. Of patients to receive and not ...

In this retrospective study, a total of 17,745 patients were included; 10,370 of whom received palliative care consultation and 7375 of whom did not. Patient data was gathered via a query of the ...