Over the past five decades, palliative care has evolved from serving patients at the end of life
into a highly specialized discipline focused on delivering supportive care to patients with life …

Although outpatient specialty palliative-care clinics improve outcomes, there is no
consensus on who should be referred or the optimal timing for referral. In response to this …

Background Early palliative care (EPC) in oncology has been shown to have a positive
impact on clinical outcome, quality-of-care outcomes, and costs. However, the optimal way …

Aim Early palliative care (EPC) in oncology has shown sparse evidence of a positive impact
on patient outcomes, quality of care outcomes and costs. Patients and methods Data for this …

Importance Patients with advanced cancer often report expectations for survival that differ
from their oncologists' expectations. Whether patients know that their survival expectations …

Despite increasing data to support pediatric palliative care (PPC) as an integral component
of high‐quality care for children with life‐threatening conditions and their families, timely …

Purpose Whether prognostic awareness benefits terminally ill cancer patients' psychological–
existential well‐being and quality of life (QOL) is unclear because of lack of well‐controlled …

Advanced cancer patients commonly have misunderstandings about the intentions of
treatment and their overall prognosis. Several studies have shown that large numbers of …

Background Despite the benefits to early palliative care in the treatment of terminal illness,
barriers to timely hospice referrals exist. Physicians who are more comfortable having end-of …

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 …