With current healthcare reform and calls for improving care quality and safety, there is
renewed emphasis on high‐value care. Moreover, given the significant healthcare resource …

Abstract The World Health Organization defined palliative care as “an approach that
improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with …

Background: Emergency department (ED)-initiated palliative care consultation facilitates
goal-concordant care while stewarding resource utilization. Delivery models are being …

Most US citizens die in acute care hospitals, often in physical pain, without attention to
emotional and spiritual suffering. This represents an ethical failure of our current health-care …

Opinion statement The specialty of palliative care has evolved over time to provide symptom
management, psychosocial support, and care planning for patients with cancer throughout …

Purpose Despite the growing acceptance of palliative care as a component of high-quality
care for patients with serious illness, it remains underutilized in the surgical critical care …

It is right and fitting that an article focused on palliative care appears in the inaugural issue of
the Journal of Hospital Medicine (JHM). 1 Both hospital medicine and palliative care are …

Striking gains in life expectancy—for example from an average of 50 years in 1900 to 78
years in the United States today—have transformed human experience across the globe …

Palliative care is medical care focused on the relief of suffering and support for the best
possible quality of life for patients facing serious, life‐threatening illness and their families. It …

Leading medical authorities advocate for routine integration of palliative care for all major
causes of death in the United States. With rapid growth and acceptance, the field of palliative …