… To assess evidence about interventions to improve palliative and end-of-life care. … Strong
to moderate evidence supports interventions to improve important aspects of end-of-life care. …

… stated that timely end-of-life care discussions enabled them … make use of hospice and
palliative care services sooner. In … to palliative care may all act as prompts to start end-of-life …

… Recommendations offered by NCCN cover many of the topics discussed in this article
and are an excellent resource for the palliative care of patients with cancer and other life-…

… palliative care. Because there are few rigorous outcome studies of communication about
palliative care… can physicians begin to discuss palliative care? How might physicians respond to …

… For many American health care providers, it has been difficult to revise … to palliative care
goals. Reasons for this may be due to health care professionals' lack of formal palliative care …

… the implementation of end-of-life palliative care to provide quality of life for patients and …
and social care.10, 11 Palliative care is not restricted to special places. Ideally, this care should …

… by nurses in providing end-of-life palliative care (EoL/PC) in intensive care units (ICUs).
A … lack of a palliative care approach, interprofessional difficulty, lack of continuity in life-support …

… , teach primary care groups how to deliver end-of-life care, and conduct research on end-of-life
care [24]. Therefore, the terms palliative care and end-of-life care are complementary. We …

… new palliative care services. The term “palliative care” signifies both an approach to care and
… The Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines palliative care as “care that provides relief from pain …

… involvement of palliative care is associated with improved end-of-life outcomes compared …
Our observation that early and outpatient palliative care is associated with improved end-of-life …