Hospice & Palliative Medicine
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Palliative Care May Improve End-of-Life Care for Patients with ESRD, Cardiopulmonary Failure, Frailty
Is there a difference in family-rated quality of care for patients dying with different serious illnesses?
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Providing Effective Palliative Care in the Era of Value
An important area to pay particular attention to is the role of future hospitalizations in patients’ wishes for care
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New Community-Based Palliative Care Certification to Launch
The industry’s first certification for home health and hospices that provide top-caliber community-based palliative care services in the patient’s...
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Benefits of Earlier Palliative Care
Offering palliative care early to hospitalized patients with multiple serious conditions could improve care and help reduce healthcare spending,...
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Stigma Keeps Some Cancer Patients from getting Palliative Care
(Reuters Health) - Some cancer patients may turn down care that could ease their pain and improve their quality of life because they think this...
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Early Palliative Care Can Save Money
Clinical question: Does time to consult after admission change the effect palliative care consultation has on cost of care? Background: Studies...
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How to Develop a Comprehensive Pediatric Palliative Care Program
For Ami Doshi, MD, FAAP, a hospitalist at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego, the path to establishing a comprehensive pediatric palliative care...
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Palliative Care, Advance Care Planning Conversations Needed Between Patients, Hospitalists
Editor’s note: In July, SHM board member Howard Epstein supported the new CMS proposal to pay for advance care planning, calling it a “procedure”...
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Most Important Elements of End-of-Life Care
[caption id="attachment_10755" align="alignright" width="275"] Image Credit: SHUTTERSTOCK.COM[/caption] An Australian team conducted a literature...
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Hospice, Palliative Care Groups Release Quality Care Measures
[caption id="attachment_9635" align="alignright" width="300"] Photo credit: Manuel Noguera[/caption] The American Academy of Hospice and...