'Show up and share': How one ICU helps patients and staff live with dying
Extraordinary things happen in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
Mar 27, 2025
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Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services: News and Research on Palliative Care
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Early palliative care billing up from 2010 to 2019 for advanced cancer
For patients with distant-stage cancers, there was an increase in early palliative care (PC) billing from 2010 to 2019, but the level remained low, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Mar 17, 2025
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Most Americans don't know about medical aid in dying options
Most people in the United States don't know that medical aid in dying, a legal practice that allows terminally ill patients to obtain a prescription for medication to end their life, is legal in certain states, according ...
Mar 11, 2025
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Exploring the role of AI in palliative care and decision-making
A few years ago, when second-year School of Nursing Ph.D. student Oonjee Oh was working as a nurse on a general surgery unit in South Korea, she was struck by the feeling that many patients weren't getting the opportunity ...
Mar 3, 2025
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Global demand for palliative care has risen by 74% in the past 30 years, study finds
The global need for palliative care (PC) has increased by 74% over the last three decades, rising to 73.5 million people in 2021, according to a paper published in The Lancet Global Health.
Feb 27, 2025
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Video helps patients with defibrillators understand options, improve end-of-life care
A UT Southwestern Medical Center quality improvement team led a large-scale, multispecialty project in partnership with the Parkland Center of Innovation and Value to help patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators ...
Feb 26, 2025
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Research finds low uptake of supportive care at the end-of-life for patients with advanced cancer
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 patients with advanced ...
Feb 21, 2025
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Study reveals paramedics face challenging end-of-life care demands
Paramedics in England are experiencing wide-ranging challenges in responding to the increasing number of end-of-life care patients they are being called out to, according to a study from the University of Southampton.
Feb 13, 2025
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Experts outline key research areas in neuropalliative care
Neurological disease, from Alzheimer's disease to stroke and epilepsy, can impact a person's life in many ways. It can alter their ability to speak, move, think or lead an independent life. And it can have a significant impact ...
Feb 7, 2025
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Study highlights Native Hawaiian end-of-life care preferences
A study by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's Hā Kūpuna—National Resource Center for Native Hawaiian Elders sheds light on the end-of-life care preferences of Native Hawaiian kūpuna (elders). Led by Assistant Professor ...
Feb 4, 2025
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