Background Early palliative care for advanced cancer patients improves quality of life and
survival, but less is known about its effect on intensive care unit (ICU) use at the end of life …

Objective: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), palliative care (PC) should be
available to everyone suffering from life-threatening diseases and should be started early on …

Background: Intervention trials confirm that patients with advanced cancer receiving early
palliative care experience a better quality of life and show improved knowledge about and …

Purpose: Palliative care's role in oncology has expanded, but its effect on aggressiveness of
care at the end of life has not been characterized at the population level. Methods: This …

BACKGROUND The current article evaluated the course of patient‐assessed
symptomatology in specialized palliative care and tested for bias due to patient attrition in …

Purpose Randomized controlled trials have supported integrated oncology and palliative
care (PC); however, optimal timing has not been evaluated. We investigated the effect of …

Purpose To assess the feasibility of early palliative care in the ambulatory setting in patients
with newly diagnosed advanced non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Patients and …

Background: Studies suggest that outpatient palliative care can reduce hospitalization and
increase hospice utilization for patients with cancer, however there are insufficient resources …

Background: Cancer care near the end of life (EOL) has become more aggressive over the
years. Palliative care services (PCS) may decrease this aggressive cancer care in terminally …

Importance Palliative care improves health outcomes, but studies of the differences in the
delivery of palliative care to patients with different types of serious illness are lacking …