Patient-centered care cannot exist without goal concordant care; healthcare leaders must embed GCC to align treatment with patient preferences.

Among seriously ill patients who preferred comfort care, those with cancer were nearly twice as likely as those with other diseases to report receiving life-extending care instead, according to a new ...

John Fox, MD: Several years ago, we sponsored next-generation sequencing testing for patients who had advanced stage cancer, and the requirement for participation in this was that patients go through ...

Each component of a SMART goal is designed to ensure that you have the proper framework to accomplish an objective. Instead of making open-ended wishes for the future, you make a purposeful plan. For ...

A recent study of Medicare beneficiaries with poor-prognosis cancers found statistically signi cant differences in care utilization between hospice and nonhospice bene ficiaries at the end of life. 1 ...

Hospice care can be a valuable resource for patients with late-stage cancer who want to improve the quality of the rest of their life. Hospice — which is sometimes referred to as end-of-life care — ...

I know what you’re thinking: “Another article on artificial intelligence? What else is there to say?” But, like it or not, AI is rapidly becoming an integral part of our everyday lives. The discourse ...