For patients with advanced cancer, aggressive care—chemotherapy, mechanical ventilation, acute hospitalizations and intensive care unit admissions—at the end of life is commonplace. Yet until now, little is known about ...
May 25, 2017
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Britain topped an 80-country "quality of death" study released Tuesday, which warned that ageing and booming populations would make palliative care a growing worldwide issue.
Oct 6, 2015
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Offering palliative care earlier to dying patients at home is linked to fewer hospital admissions at the end of their lives, raising questions about the time restrictions placed on accessing community-based palliative care ...
Mar 2, 2018
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There is a continuing need to increase public awareness of palliative care and clarify misperceptions about its differentiation from voluntary assisted dying, according to the authors of a Perspective published online today ...
Aug 24, 2020
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A palliative care consultation initiated in the emergency department (ED) for patients with advanced cancer was associated with improved quality of life and did not seem to shorten survival, according to an article published ...
Jan 14, 2016
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A new scoring system can more reliably predict whether patients with advanced cancer are likely to survive for "days", "weeks" or "months" finds a study published in the British Medical Journal today.
Aug 26, 2011
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Just 14 percent of people in the world population have access to palliative care services that allow people to die with dignity and alleviate their suffering, according to new research led by the University of Glasgow.
Dec 17, 2019
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An Australian review of palliative care services has revealed the impact of opioid medication errors on patients in the final weeks of their lives.
Jan 8, 2018
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Hospitals across the nation are increasingly implementing palliative care programs to help patients manage the physical and emotional burdens of serious illnesses, but a new University of Georgia study finds that 82 percent ...
Jul 11, 2011
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(HealthDay)—There was an increase in provision of palliative care for patients hospitalized between 2006 and 2014 with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) requiring dialysis, but rates were lower for black and Hispanic patients, ...
Aug 26, 2019
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