Background Palliative care for patients with advanced cancer improves suffering symptoms,
and quality of life (QoL). However, routine implementation of palliative care by specialty …

Purpose Although outpatient palliative care clinics are increasingly common, evidence for
their efficacy remains limited. Methods We conducted an observational study at the palliative …

Background: Palliative care aims to improve suffering and quality of life for patients with life-
limiting disease. This study evaluated an interdisciplinary palliative consultation team for …

Background: Despite increasing emphasis on integration of palliative care with disease-
directed care for advanced cancer, the nature of this integration and its effects on patient and …

Patients with advanced cancer experience a complex web of problems, all of which interact.
Specialist palliative care services have developed to meet these needs, but their …

Introduction: Experimental studies have shown that palliative care team (PCT) involvement
can improve quality of life (QoL) and symptom burden of patients with advanced cancer. It is …

Background: Integrated palliative care (IPC) is regarded as the standard therapy for
advanced cancer. We conduct a comprehensive analysis to evaluate current evidence for …

Palliative care (PC) concurrent with usual oncology care is now the standard of care that is
recommended for any patient with advanced cancer to begin within 8 weeks of diagnosis on …

Purpose Hospital-based palliative care teams (HPCTs) are widespread internationally, but
multicenter studies about their effectiveness, using patient-reported outcomes (PROs), are …

Objective To evaluate the clinical effect of a multidisciplinary collaboration team combined
with a palliative care model in patients with terminal cancer. Method A total of 84 patients …