Objectives: There is growing recognition that high-quality care for patients and families in the
ICU requires exemplary interprofessional collaboration and communication. One important …

Abstract Purpose In 2005, the European Association for Palliative Care made
recommendations for prognostic markers in advanced cancer. Since then, prognostic tools …

Importance Seriously ill hospitalized patients have identified communication and decision
making about goals of care as high priorities for quality improvement in end-of-life care …

Setting a research agenda for medical overuse Page 1 Setting a research agenda for
medical overuse Although overuse in medicine is gaining increased attention, many …

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The evidence base demonstrating the benefits of an early focus on palliative care for
patients with serious cancers, including advanced lung cancer, is substantial. Early …

Objectives 2 innovative concepts have lately been developed to radically improve the care
of patients with advanced chronic conditions (PACC): early identification of palliative care …

With his “deeply informed and compassionate book… Dr. Epstein tells us that it is a 'moral
imperative'[for doctors] to do right by their patients”(New York Journal of Books). The first …

In an era of high technology and low trust, acknowledging and coping with uncertainty is
more crucial than ever. Medical uncertainty has been considered an innate feature of …

Objective: To provide a description of communication breakdowns and to identify
interventions to improve surgical decision making for elderly patients with serious illness …