Early palliative care services and end-of-life care in medicare beneficiaries with hematologic malignancies: a population-based retrospective cohort study

VB Rao, E Belanger, PC Egan, TW LeBlanc… - Journal of Palliative …, 2021 - liebertpub.com
Background: Patients with hematologic malignancies (HM) often receive aggressive care at
the end of life (EOL). Early palliative care (PC) has been shown to improve EOL care …

[HTML][HTML] Billed palliative care services and end-of-life care in patients with hematologic malignancies

VB Rao, E Belanger, PC Egan, TW LeBlanc… - Blood, 2019 - Elsevier
Background: Patients with hematologic malignancies often receive aggressive care at the
end of life (EOL), leading to lower quality of life. Access to early palliative care may improve …

Impact of early palliative care on end-of-life outcomes in hematologic malignancies

A Pelcovits, AJ Olszewski, D Decker… - Journal of Palliative …, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Background: Patients with hematologic malignancies (HMs) receive more disease directed
care at the end of life (EOL) and often die in the hospital. The impact of early palliative care …

End-of-life care quality outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries with hematologic malignancies

PC Egan, TW LeBlanc, AJ Olszewski - Blood Advances, 2020 - ashpublications.org
Patients with hematologic malignancies are thought to receive more aggressive end-of-life
(EOL) care and have suboptimal hospice use compared with patients with solid tumors, but …

[HTML][HTML] Association between palliative care and end-of-life care for patients with hematological malignancies: a population-based study

JK Chiang, YC Lee, YH Kao - Medicine, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Association between palliative care and end-of-Life care for... : Medicine Association between
palliative care and end-of-Life care for patients with hematological malignancies: A …

Hematologic Malignancy: Who Cares in the End? A Retrospective Cohort Study of Markers of Quality End-of-Life Care

B Shaw, C Parker, S Opat, J Shortt, P Poon - Journal of the National …, 2023 - jnccn.org
Background: Early palliative care is increasingly used in solid organ malignancy but is less
established in patients with hematologic malignancy. Disease-related factors increase the …

Health care use by older adults with acute myeloid leukemia at the end of life

R Wang, AM Zeidan, S Halene, X Xu… - Journal of Clinical …, 2017 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Little is known about the patterns and predictors of the use of end-of-life health care
among patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). End-of-life care is particularly relevant …

Outcomes of patients with hematologic malignancies who received inpatient palliative care consultation

AV Pasquarella, S Islam, A Ramdhanny… - JCO Oncology …, 2022 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE: Palliative care (PC) plays an established role in improving outcomes in patients
with solid tumors, yet these services are underutilized in hematologic malignancies (HMs) …

[HTML][HTML] Revisiting Early Palliative Care for Patients With Hematologic Malignancies and Bone Marrow Transplant: Why the Delay?

AF Sánchez, AMF Armesto, CB Chávez, M Ruiz - Cureus, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Palliative care has been defined as specialized care for patients facing serious illnesses.
Despite advancements in the field and studies documenting the effectiveness of early …

Early palliative care for patients with hematologic malignancies: is it really so difficult to achieve?

TW LeBlanc, EJ Roeland, A El-Jawahri - Current hematologic malignancy …, 2017 - Springer
Evidence points to many benefits of “early palliative care,” the provision of specialist
palliative care services upstream from the end of life, to improve patients' quality of life while …