Background: There is increasing need for nonspecialty physicians to deliver palliative care
(PC) services to meet patient needs, but many physicians feel inadequately prepared …

Background Palliative care consultation (PCC) has been shown to improve quality of life and
reduce costs for various chronic life-threatening diseases. Despite PCC incorporation into …

As the global cancer burden grows, so too will global inequities in access to cancer and
palliative care increase. This paper will describe the cancer and palliative care landscape …

Early palliative and supportive care referral is the standard of care for many malignancies.
This paradigm results in improvements in patients' symptoms and quality of life and …

Methods: The authors reviewed studies of palliative care interventions in oncology settings,
with an emphasis on studies that included women with gynecologic malignancies. A panel …

Objective Nurses have opportunities to engage in goals of care conversations that can
promote palliative care communication. The purpose of this study was to describe nurses' …

Background: Hospitalized patients with serious illness have significant symptom burden and
face complex medical decisions that often require goals of care discussions. Given the …

Nearly half of the persons receiving dialysis in the United States are aged 65 years or older.
Kidney failure occurs most frequently in older adults, and typically triggers a discussion …

Objective The importance of early integration of palliative care in the management of
complex multi‐system diseases has been recognised. In this study, we aimed to quantify the …

Palliative care is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on optimizing quality of life for patients
with serious, life-limiting illnesses. 1 Palliative care includes aggressive management of …