… 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 …

… To measure its value in oncological care, it is important to discuss the most common
problems and challenges facing cancer patients, the effectiveness of PC interventions in …

… 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 …

… Palliative Care. She is a member of several nursing and palliative care editorial boards and
has … numerous data-based and other scholarly articles and books related to palliative care. …

… that palliative care is an alternative to life-prolonging or curative care, in most cases, palliative
care … and family should be delivered in conjunction with life-prolonging and curative efforts. …

… 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 …