When and why should patients with hematologic malignancies see a palliative care specialist?

TW LeBlanc, A El-Jawahri - Hematology 2014, the American …, 2015 - ashpublications.org
Palliative care is a multidisciplinary approach to symptom management, psychosocial
support, and assistance in treatment decision-making for patients with serious illness and …

Current status of accurate prognostic awareness in advanced/terminally ill cancer patients: systematic review and meta-regression analysis

CH Chen, SC Kuo, ST Tang - Palliative medicine, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: No systematic meta-analysis is available on the prevalence of cancer patients'
accurate prognostic awareness and differences in accurate prognostic awareness by …

Referral criteria to palliative care for patients with heart failure: a systematic review

YK Chang, H Kaplan, Y Geng, L Mo, J Philip… - Circulation: Heart …, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Patients with heart failure have significant symptom burden, care needs, and
often a progressive course to end-stage disease. Palliative care referrals may be helpful but …

Standardized criteria for palliative care consultation on a solid tumor oncology service reduces downstream health care use

K Adelson, J Paris, JR Horton… - Journal of Oncology …, 2017 - ascopubs.org
Purpose: Hospitalized patients with advanced cancer have a high symptom burden and
need for support. Integration of palliative care (PC) improves symptom control and …

End‐of‐life care matters: Palliative cancer care results in better care and lower costs

S Dalal, E Bruera - The Oncologist, 2017 - academic.oup.com
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Development, validation, and evaluation of a simple machine learning model to predict cirrhosis mortality

F Kanwal, TJ Taylor, JR Kramer, Y Cao… - JAMA network …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Machine-learning algorithms offer better predictive accuracy than traditional
prognostic models but are too complex and opaque for clinical use. Objective To compare …

Early integration of palliative care for children with high‐risk cancer and their families

EC Kaye, S Friebert, JN Baker - Pediatric blood & cancer, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Despite increasing data to support pediatric palliative care (PPC) as an integral component
of high‐quality care for children with life‐threatening conditions and their families, timely …

Early palliative care and metastatic non-small cell lung cancer: potential mechanisms of prolonged survival

KE Irwin, JA Greer, J Khatib… - Chronic respiratory …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Patients with advanced cancer experience a significant burden of physical symptoms and
psychological distress at the end of life, and many elect to receive aggressive cancer …

[HTML][HTML] The health care cost of palliative care for cancer patients: a systematic review

S Yadav, IW Heller, N Schaefer, RG Salloum… - Supportive Care in …, 2020 - Springer
Objectives Several delivery models of palliative care are currently available: hospital-based,
outpatient-based, home-based, nursing home-based, and hospice-based. Weighing the …

[HTML][HTML] The importance of prognostication: impact of prognostic predictions, disclosures, awareness, and acceptance on patient outcomes

D Hui, L Mo, CE Paiva - Current treatment options in oncology, 2021 - Springer
Opinion Statement In the advanced cancer setting, patients, families, and clinicians are often
confronted with an uncertain future regarding treatment outcomes and survival. Greater …