Objectives: High-quality care for intensive care unit patients and families includes palliative
care. To promote performance improvement, the Agency for Healthcare Research and …

Purpose Informed medical decision‐making at the end of life often requires engaging in
highly emotional, potentially upsetting discussions about prognosis, while ensuring that …

Background There are limited data on illness understanding and perception of cure among
advanced cancer patients around the world. The aim of the study was to determine the …

ObjectivesLatino-advanced cancer patients engage in advance care planning (ACP) at
lower rates than non-Latino patients. The goal of the present study was to understand …

Background: Disparities in hospice and palliative care (PC) for African Americans have been
linked to mistrust toward the healthcare system, racial inequalities, and cultural preferences …

Introduction The prognostic role of racial and socioeconomic factors in patients with
glioblastoma is controversially debated. We aimed to evaluate how these factors may affect …

This study investigated sociodemographic and psychosocial factors that enhance or impede
the completion of advance care planning, analyzing data from the Health and Retirement …

BACKGROUND: High‐quality lung cancer care includes physician‐patient communication
about the disease and treatment, patient needs/preferences, and care goals. In this study …

Purpose Many cancer patients do not have advance directives (ADs), which may lead to
unwanted excessive or aggressive care when patients have lost decision-making capacity …

Background: Little is known about factors that influence hospice use for patients with blood
cancers. We aimed to characterize hospice enrollment in a large population of patients with …