Over years of practice, many beliefs and practices become entrenched as tried and tested,
and we subconsciously believe they are based on scientific evidence. We identified nine …

With current healthcare reform and calls for improving care quality and safety, there is
renewed emphasis on high‐value care. Moreover, given the significant healthcare resource …

CONTEXT: Unlike primary care physicians in the US, it is only recently that Hungarian
primary care physicians have had the educational resources for providing end-of-life care …

Purpose: Multiple interventions have been developed to teach and improve internal
medicine residents' end-of-life communication skills, but have not been easily adaptable to …

CONTEXT: Most patients with serious and life-limiting illness experience pain at some point
in the illness trajectory. OBJECTIVES: To describe baseline pain management practices for …

The lack of consensus in American society regarding the permissibility of assisted suicide
and euthanasia is due in large part to a failure to address the nature of the human person …

Despite how frequently we say “comfort measures only”(CMO) in the hospital setting, review
of the medical literature yields poor representation and definition of the term. Through a …

Background: We evaluated use of medications and interventions in patients receiving a new
standardized palliative care order set (PCOS) compared with patients receiving no palliative …

Hospitalists are uniquely positioned to implement strategies to improve patient flow and
efficiency. Hospital leaders have stated they expect hospitalists to comanage surgical …

Background: Opiates are commonly used for symptoms at the end of life (EOL). Little is
known about the decision-making process physicians go through when deciding to …