Introduction Palliative care is critically important for the world's aging population and can
change illness trajectories and promote advances in health care technologies. As health …

Methods: The question for the literature search was–Does integration of early specialist
palliative care in cancer care influences patient-related outcomes? 31 articles related to …

Health and care services have failed to keep up with this dramatic demographic shift. The
NHS has designed hospital medical specialties around single organ diseases. Primary care …

BACKGROUND A significant share of the cost of cancer care is concentrated in the end‐of‐
life period. Although quality measures of aggressive treatment may guide optimal care …

Objectives 2 innovative concepts have lately been developed to radically improve the care
of patients with advanced chronic conditions (PACC): early identification of palliative care …

Background: To compare quality of life (QoL) of patients receiving early palliative care (EPC)
vs. standard oncologic care (SOC). Methods: Pragmatic, multicenter, randomized trial at five …

Background: Although palliative care services are increasing in the United States, disparities
exist in access and utilization. Hence, we explored these factors in hospitalized patients with …

162 Abdulaziz Al-Mahrezi, et al. be introduced in several different settings: as a standalone
service in a center or hospice, hospital-based, community-based, and home care. 13 In …

Cancer, a leading cause of mortality worldwide, is often diagnosed at late stages in low-and
middle-income countries, resulting in preventable suffering. When added to standard …

Background: In cost-effectiveness analyses in healthcare, Quality-Adjusted Life Years are
often used as outcome measure of effectiveness. However, there is an ongoing debate …