Importance Research into acupuncture and acupressure and their application for cancer
pain has been growing, but the findings have been inconsistent. Objective To evaluate the …

Background: Mobile health is a promising strategy aiming to anticipate and prevent the
deterioration of health status in palliative cancer patients. A prerequisite for successful …

PURPOSE: Reducing acute care use is an important strategy for improving value in cancer
care. However, little information is available to describe and compare population-level …

Background: Unplanned readmissions or emergency visits (EVs) after discharge from
hospital are frequent in patients in palliative care. Strategies to anticipate and prevent rapid …

Background Lung cancer health disparities are related to various patient factors. This study
describes regional differences in healthcare utilization and racial characteristics to identify …

Objectives Gastrointestinal complications, like blockage, are among the most common
oncological emergencies. We investigated whether individuals with cancer presenting at the …

Introduction Due to its increasing incidence and its major contribution to healthcare costs,
cancer is a major public health problem in the United States. The impact across different …

Objective To evaluate a new intervention intended to increase referral rates from the
emergency department (ED) to the palliative medicine service (PMS) in acute hospitals …

Background: Palliative care patients are a particularly vulnerable population and one of the
critical phases in patients' trajectories is discharge from specialized in-patient palliative care …

Objectives The primary objective was to assess whether presentation severity at the
emergency department (ED) can determine treatment and health outcomes among patients …