Specialist palliative care services have been flexible, highly adaptive and have embraced a low-cost "frugal innovation" model in response to the COVID-19 pandemic say researchers.
Mar 23, 2021
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Findings from an international study into the costs and outcomes of informal end of life care have today been published BMC Medicine.
Nov 5, 2020
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Findings from a large-scale clinical trial testing a new palliative care model have shown to be lower cost, viewed positively by patients and their carers while showing no difference in patient-reported outcomes when compared ...
Aug 28, 2020
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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 new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health found that implementing hospital-based palliative care services in New York State reduces treatment intensity at the end of life for hospitalized patients. ...
Jan 8, 2020
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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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(HealthDay)—Inpatient palliative care teams are reaching a broader mix of patients earlier in the course of their illness, according to a study published online Dec. 6 in JAMA Network Open.
Dec 16, 2019
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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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(HealthDay)—For patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the use of formal palliative care services and long-term oxygen therapy has increased but remains low, according to a study published ...
Jul 2, 2018
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Doctors can improve the quality of life for their seriously ill patients while also reducing the patients' medical expenses if they make use of one particular care model, so why aren't they using it?
Jun 26, 2018
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