Purpose To explore factors associated with emergency department (ED) attendance by
patients with cancer in their last month of life. Methods Five electronic databases (MEDLINE …

Patient-defined factors that are important at the end of life include being physically
independent for as long as possible, good symptom control, and spending quality time with …

The NCCN Guidelines for Palliative Care provide interdisciplinary recommendations on
palliative care for patients with cancer. These NCCN Guidelines Insights summarize and …

Background: Early palliative care can reduce end-of-life acute-care use, but findings are
mainly limited to cancer populations receiving hospital interventions. Few studies describe …

Purpose: Palliative care's role in oncology has expanded, but its effect on aggressiveness of
care at the end of life has not been characterized at the population level. Methods: This …

Background: Heart failure (HF) and palliative care (PC) organizations recommend early PC
to improve the quality of life of patients living with HF. Objective: We conducted a two-phase …

Objective: To describe patterns in the use of hospital emergency departments in the last year
of life by people who died with dementia and whether this was modified by use of community …

Frequent emergency department visits (EDVs) by patients with terminal cancer indicates
aggressive care. The pattern and causes of EDVs in 154 patients with terminal cancer were …

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 …

Context Despite being commonplace in health care systems, little research has described
home care nursing's effectiveness to reduce acute care use at the end of life. Objectives To …