When it comes to how much end-of-life care a patient with cancer receives, geography may, indeed, be destiny, according to new research led by Harvard Medical School that found striking differences in terminal care across ...
Jul 9, 2018
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Advance directives are the primary tool for individuals to communicate their wishes if they become incapacitated and are unable to make their own health care decisions, particularly near the end of life. Despite this, 63 ...
Jul 5, 2017
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Conversations around end-of-life medical care can be challenging. Consider someone I'll call Mrs. Jones, an elderly patient with advanced heart disease. When her doctor asked her to discuss the kind of care she wanted to ...
Jan 12, 2015
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Palliative and end-of-life care are not being considered as core services by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in some parts of England, with a vast degree of variation across different services and regions, reveals an ...
Feb 28, 2017
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Patients with COPD would like healthcare professionals to discuss palliative care needs in more detail, according to a new study.
Sep 7, 2014
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End-of-life care for nursing home residents has long been associated with poor symptom control and low family satisfaction. With more than one in four older Americans dying in a nursing home—including 70 percent of Americans ...
Feb 19, 2015
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A related package of articles published online by JAMA Oncology focuses on end-of-life care for teens and young adults and advance care planning for patients with cancer. The package of articles includes two original investigations, ...
Jul 9, 2015
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(HealthDay)—Efforts to increase transparency among doctors are underway, according to an article published in The Boston Globe.
Sep 17, 2014
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Many nursing home residents have a fairly pain-free experience until the end of life, but at least a third suffer persistent, significant pain during their last six months, according to a new study from the University of ...
Jun 29, 2017
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(HealthDay)—More than one-quarter of American seniors have never discussed end-of-life care, a new study finds.
Oct 31, 2016
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