Hospice & Palliative Medicine
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CHEST Foundation award project empowers patients and families through online palliative care resource
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More hospitals providing palliative care
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SPIKES protocol offers guidance for 'active listening' when talking to cancer patients
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Need is dire for palliative care in disaster planning
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Cancer patients embrace pioneer assisted-suicide program
Major finding: None of the 114 patients who participated in the Death with Dignity (assisted-suicide) program during a 2-year period, nor their...
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Prescription is futile: Medication burden remains high at end of life
Major finding: At some point in their end of life care, 39% of patients received futile medications and 19% received duplicate medications.Data...
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What's in a name: Is the moniker 'palliative care' too loaded?
Major finding: The term supportive care was rated significantly higher than palliative care for overall understanding (mean 7.7 vs. 6.8; P = .021...
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MOPAT may guide pain evaluation, relief in noncommunicative patients
Major finding: Pain scores as rated by staff nurses decreased significantly after the pain interventions on the behavioral (mean, 6.3 vs. 1.7) and...