Hospice & Palliative Medicine
Law & Medicine
DNR orders and medical futility
News
VIDEO: How to improve cancer survivorship planning
News
Comfort care informs critical care societies’ Choosing Wisely list
News
Five criteria doubled palliative care, cut hospital readmissions
Major finding: Thirty-day readmission rates fell from 36% before use of the criteria to 17% after use of the criteria – a significant improvement...
News
Hospice usage up but not delivered soon enough, study finds
News
Few states meet palliative care benchmark
Commentary
Tigger and end-of-life talk
News
Timely palliative consult affects end-of-life care in gynecologic cancer patients
Major finding: Patients receiving timely palliative care had lower scores for aggressive care at the end of life (0 vs. 2) and, in their last 14...
News
Lower costs documented in hospitals with palliative care programs
Major finding: ICU length of stay in the last 6 months of life was 0.4 days shorter and hospice length of stay was 1.6 days longer at hospitals...
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Cancer patients embrace pioneer assisted-suicide program
Major finding: None of the 114 patients who participated in the Death with Dignity (assisted-suicide) program during a 2-year period, nor their...
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YouTube poor source of palliative information
Major finding: In all, 133 palliative care videos (28%) were good quality and 335 were poor quality (72%).Data source: Retrospective analysis of...