Applying palliative care principles to emergency departments may reduce the number of geriatric patients admitted to intensive care units, possibly extending lives and reducing Medicare costs, ...

On April 27, 2017, the Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness hosted a public workshop on Models and Strategies to Integrate Palliative Care Principles into Serious Illness Care.

Efforts to optimize care delivery and outcomes for older adults with cancer must effectively address these patients' distinct geriatric and palliative care needs. In this article, we first discuss the ...

Palliative care is traditionally focused on care for the terminally ill, but scholars at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics are aiming to bring the principles and comfort of palliative ...

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DURHAM, NC — Patients with end-stage heart failure who received palliative care from an interdisciplinary team, along with usual evidence-based care, significantly improved in functional, psychosocial ...

In the controlled chaos of an hospital emergency department, ensuring that patients are pain-free and can make informed choices about their care often takes a back seat to assessing and stabilizing ...

Pediatric palliative care is often misunderstood and can come too late. The overall goal of pediatric palliative care is to improve the quality of life for a child with an underlying life-threatening ...

White family members of critically ill patients who received help on basic palliative care through mobile app improved substantially more than the usual care group. Addressing Unmet Needs Among Family ...