High-grade glioma (HGG) is characterized by debilitating neurologic symptoms and poor
prognosis. Some of the suffering this disease engenders may be ameliorated through …

Palliative care is often thought to be synonymous with end-of-life care but this is untrue. In
fact, studies in the last 15 years have shown that the early involvement with palliative care …

Outpatient palliative care facilitates timely symptom management, psychosocial care and
care planning. A growing number of cancer centers have either stand-alone or embedded …

Context: Telemedicine offers the opportunity to provide remote palliative care for patients to
control symptoms and improve quality of life, even for patients with advanced diseases …

Eighty-one percent of persons living with cancer have an emergency department (ED) visit
within the last 6 months of life. Many cancer patients in the ED are at an advanced stage with …

Background Team-based and timely integrated palliative care is a gold standard of care in
oncology, but issues concerning its optimal organization remain. Palliative Care in Day …

Pain is a common symptom associated with advanced cancer. An estimated 66.4% of
people with advanced cancer experience pain from their disease or treatment. Pain …

Simple Summary This study investigates the impact of an outpatient palliative care program
on the location of death among patients with cancer. The findings reveal a notable increase …

Objectives: Patients needing palliative care prefer to be cared for in the comfort of their
homes. Although private home health-care services are entering the health-care ecosystem …

Outpatient palliative care clinics are a new and developing area of service delivery that can
respond to increasing demand and facilitate earlier contact in the illness trajectory. Work is …