Similarly, lack of systematic assessment of other prevalent symptoms has been identified as one of the key obstacles for optimal symptom control and acceptable QOL for cancer patients. 13 To address ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More patients received palliative care referrals with a screening tool vs. traditional consultative methods. The ...

While many people associate the strategy with the end of life, studies have shown that employing palliative care earlier in the course of treatment can benefit patients’ outcomes and quality of life.

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by doctors, meant for physicians and other healthcare professionals as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this 12-part journey ...

Country-specific two-page reports display study findings on pediatric palliative care education, access to pediatric palliative care services, and barriers to and timing of integration with cancer ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In past entries of this column, we have written a lot about what palliative care is, the skills that are ...

A prognostic tool may facilitate the early identification of older adults in the community who would benefit from palliative care in their final years, new research from Canada suggested. The analysis ...

Kim K. Kuebler, Mellar P. Davis, Crystal Dea Moore. Palliative Practices: An Interdisciplinary Approach. St. Louis, Mo: Elsevier Mosby; 2005. 491 pages, ISBN 0-323-02821-7. This book is authored by ...

Background: In Canada, only 15% of patients requiring palliative care receive such services in the year before death. We describe health care utilization patterns among home care users in their last 6 ...

Understanding the trajectory of someone’s death to provide appropriate end-of-life care is a complicated process that researchers from Project Big Life, a Canadian health calculation research group, ...