Hospice & Palliative Medicine
Clinical
Early palliative care consultation in the medical ICU
Does early palliative care consultation in critically ill patients lead to early establishment of code status and positively impact care?
Perspectives
Palliative care and hospital medicine partnerships in the pandemic
Partnerships among hospital medicine and palliative care teams thrive on mutually shared core values of patient centered care.
HM20 Virtual
Performance status, molecular testing key to metastatic cancer prognosis
“The applicability of clinical trials data to hospitalized patients is generally poor. That’s an important caveat to keep in mind.”
News
Consensus document reviews determination of brain death
The recommendations are the minimum criteria for the determination of brain death or death by neurologic criteria.
Clinical
Value of palliative care shines clearly in a crisis
Hospitalists have played key roles in clarifying and redefining the new role for palliative care during the pandemic.
News
Early palliative care fails to improve QOL in advanced heart failure
“My first reaction is disappointment. We had hoped to see the ENABLE program, which had been successful in cancer, translate to the heart failure...
News
Psychiatry trainees drive COVID-19 palliative care in New York
The team managed 16 cases a day during the peak of New York's COVID-19 outbreak, operating on a rotating schedule of one to three shifts weekly....
News
With life in the balance, a pediatric palliative care program expands its work to adults
“It brings up feelings like I had after 9/11 – a unified approach to surviving this as people, as a community, the idea that ‘we will get through...
Perspectives
Call for volunteers for palliative care in COVID-19
NYC Health + Hospitals needs volunteers trained in palliative care to help patients remotely via telemedicine.
Clinical
Experts bring clarity to end of life difficulties
Confusing situations sometimes arise when treating patients near the end of their lives.