Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with usual care, default palliative care consult orders led to more consultations in older patients ...

Here’s a way to make sure that people receive palliative care sooner rather than later: Make clinicians evaluate the patient for it when people are hospitalized. That’s according to a team from the ...

Consultation with a palliative care provider substantially reduces aggressive end-of-life care compared with end-of-life care with no palliative component. Also, the earlier the consultation, the ...

Palliative care consultation at the time of phase I trial enrollment also can improve the chances that a stronger relationship with a palliative care team is established earlier. This is important ...

(Reuters Health) - Comfort care for advanced cancer patients is associated with fewer repeat hospitalizations and more hospice referrals, according to a study highlighting how this approach may offer ...

Integration of palliative care helps improves cancer symptom control and decreases unnecessary healthcare use, according to a study in the Journal of Oncology Practice. Researchers developed ...

Palliative medicine consultations for heart failure were linked with increased rates of advance directives being included in a patient’s electronic medical record, according to study results published ...

We interviewed 15 gynecologic oncologists from 8 institutions in Chicago. They described a variety of expectations from palliative care consultation. Most frequently, they consulted palliative care ...

Palliative Connect, a trigger system developed at Penn Medicine and powered by predictive analytics, was found to be effective at increasing palliative care consultations for seriously ill patients, ...

A simple screening tool integrated into the admissions process for critically ill patients can streamline requests for palliative care consultations, according to a study published in Critical Care ...

Only 20 percent of patients being treated in the hospital for severe stroke received a palliative care consultation, and only 43 percent of patients who died in the hospital met with a palliative care ...