… challenges for health care systems and society. Otolaryngologists have a special role in …
hospital strain, otolaryngologists must partner with anesthesiologists and front-line health …

… Otolaryngology continues to have an underrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities. …
to otolaryngology’s educational, research, and patient care missions. A diverse workforce can …

… Evolving concepts in palliative care can be used to support advocacy. … care should not be
used as a synonym of palliative care. Population served, Adequate provision of palliative care …

… that a more sustainable model would involve its delivery mainly by primary palliative care
providers. Primary palliative care includes core skills that all physicians should have, such as …

… Hospitals can and do provide excellent palliative care. however, there is persisting evidence
that optimal inpatient palliative care is not always provided. The reasons for this are both …

… One possible explanation for these findings is that most patients enrolled in trials of
palliative care interventions in this study did not die. The strongest benefits for home-based …

… Generously funded by the Cambia Health Foundation, this project will create and support
a PC and hospice cohort that will meet twice a month. The focus of these sessions will be on …

… Despite increasing evidence of the benefits of early access to palliative care, many
patients do not receive palliative care in a timely manner. A systematic approach in primary …

… The guidance included in this document does not replace regular standards of care, nor
do they replace the application of clinical judgement to each individual presentation, nor …

… This work will require a commitment to delivering palliative care by all health … were
delivering palliative care and not using specific palliative care physician fee codes would serve to …