Purpose Patients with advanced cancer commonly visit the emergency department (ED)
during the last 3 months of life. Identification of these patients and their palliative care needs …

Background Early palliative care (EPC) improves the quality of life but may not be feasible
for all patients with advanced cancer. Symptom screening has been suggested to triage …

Palliative care—specialized healthcare focused on improving quality of life for patients with
serious illnesses—can help urologists to care for patients with unmet symptom, coping and …

Background: Routine early palliative care (EPC) improves quality of life (QoL) for patients
with advanced cancer, but it may not be necessary for all patients. We assessed the …

Background: Studies show that early, integrated palliative care (PC) improves quality of life
(QoL) and end-of-life (EoL) care for patients with poor-prognosis cancers. However, the …

Context Palliative care improves the quality of care and may reduce utilization, but delays or
the absences of such services are common and costly in inpatient and emergency …

Context The comfort of patients with cancer near the end of life (EOL) is often undermined by
unnecessary and burdensome treatments. There is a need for more research examining …

High-quality communication can mitigate suffering during serious illness. Innovations in
theory and technology present the opportunity to advance serious illness communication …

Objective Being able to predict a patient's life expectancy can help doctors and patients
prioritize treatments and supportive care. For predicting life expectancy, physicians have …

Background: We conducted a multicenter, randomized trial of early integrated palliative and
oncology care in patients with advanced cancer to confirm the benefits of early palliative …