Background Little is known about the underlying mechanisms through which early palliative
care (EPC) improves multiple outcomes in patients with cancer and their caregivers. The aim …

Background: International oncology societies recommend early palliative care. Specific
models to integrate early palliative care efficiently into clinical practice are debated. The …

Little is known about effective interventions to reduce aggressive end-of-life care in patients
with cancer. We did a systematic review to assess what interventions are associated with …

The number of people with cancer and the need for palliative care among this population is
increasing in the United States. Despite this growing need, several barriers exist to the …

Objectives: Randomized controlled trials, especially the Early Palliative Care Study (Temel
et al., 2010), have shown that early outpatient palliative cancer care can improve quality of …

Objective A cancer diagnosis represents a unique trauma, given its life-threatening,
multidimensional, and uncertain nature. Gratitude is a construct representing the emotional …

The Serious Illness Care Program (SICP), designed by Ariadne Labs, is a multicomponent
intervention to improve conversations about values and goals for patients with a life-limiting …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore healthcare provider-perceived
challenges to HBPC patient referral and elicited providers' feedback for overcoming these …

Malnutrition is a frequent problem in cancer patients, the prevalence and degree of which
primarily depend on tumor stage and site [1]. Its negative consequences are prolonged …

Purpose Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of primary liver cancer,
has a rapidly rising prevalence in the United States and a very poor overall rate of survival …