Palliative care, a rapidly growing medical specialty, uses a team approach to enhance
quality of care for persons with serious illness. This review summarizes recent trends and …

BACKGROUND Body image is a critical psychosocial issue for patients with cancer because
they often undergo significant changes to appearance and functioning. The primary purpose …

COVID-19 has placed enormous stress on hospitals and health care providers worldwide.
Limitations in hospital capacity may result in difficult decisions in how life-sustaining …

How does CEOs' trait empathy affect their management of organizational crises? So far,
management scholars have highlighted mostly positive effects of CEOs' empathy in the …

Shared decision making for advanced heart failure has become both more challenging and
more crucial as duration of disease and treatment options have increased. High-quality …

Outcomes of Prognostic Disclosure: Associations With Prognostic Understanding, Distress,
and Relationship With Physician Among Patients With Advanced Cancer - PMC Back to Top …

Purpose We describe the key elements of early palliative care (PC) across the illness
trajectory and examine whether visit content was associated with patient-reported outcomes …

At a time of controversy about a sick and aging population and fiscal constraint, honest
communication about choices and outcomes represents an important solution. Yet evidence …

BACKGROUND: Elderly patients with advanced kidney disease experience considerable
disability, morbidity, and mortality. Little is known about the impact of physician-patient …

Significant mortality benefits have been documented in recipients of implantable
cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs); however, the psychosocial distress created by the …