Palliative care is a medical subspecialty devoted to palliating symptoms and spending time
communicating with patients from the onset of chronic illness through the end of life. Time is …

Although palliative care is not new to health care or to oncology, oncologists still struggle to
maximize the value of this type of care across the entire care continuum and across the …

Historically, health and social care professionals have described their lack of competence
and confidence in many aspects of palliative care, and have recognized the need for …

Striking gains in life expectancy—for example from an average of 50 years in 1900 to 78
years in the United States today—have transformed human experience across the globe …

What Health Care Providers Know (and Need to Know) about Palliative Care Page 1 Health
care education has been widely criticized for not providing training in end-of-life care. Despite …

The benefits of specialist palliative care (PC) among those with serious illness are well
established (1, 2). Unfortunately, there is a critical supply–demand mismatch between 1) the …

Palliative care focuses on improving quality of life for patients with serious illness and their
families. This type of care includes providing relief from pain and/or other distressing …

While palliative care is best delivered in an interdisciplinary format, courses teaching the
interdisciplinary approach to palliative care are rare in healthcare education. This article …

Despite significant advances in understanding the benefits of early integration of palliative
care with disease management, many people living with a chronic life-threatening illness …

Introduction It is widely recognized that physicians of all backgrounds benefit from having a
general palliative care skill set to optimally manage their patients at the end of life. However …