A Palliative Performance Status (PPS) of 50% or lower at admission to SAD-CP indicated moderate to significant functional decline, confirming the critical role of nursing care in the home-based ...

The National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) and the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC), ...

Researchers assessed a multidisciplinary palliative care nursing plan for cancer-related fatigue in patients with advanced lung cancer.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients using stepped palliative care model had fewer mean visits by week 24. Those who received stepped care ...

Palliative care integration in oncology improves quality of life, reduces aggressive end-of-life care, and may prolong survival, while lowering healthcare costs. Operational challenges include ...

Findings from a large-scale clinical trial testing a new palliative care model have shown to be lower cost, viewed positively by patients and their carers while showing no difference in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In this video, Christine McMahon, MD, discusses the results of a randomized trial of a care model for patients ...

Findings from a large-scale clinical trial testing a new palliative care model have shown to be lower cost, viewed positively by patients and their carers while showing no difference in ...

For too long, many have talked about the need for community-based palliative care programs as both a precursor to hospice care and even as a stand-alone service. Sure, some have given it a go, but for ...

Educational Collaboration Between Russian-Born US Physicians and Russian Oncology Trainees in Evidence-Based Medicine: The Higher School of Oncology After an initial assessment of the status of ...

For loved ones with advanced illness such as cancer or heart disease or with severe symptoms from a chronic illness, especially in the last year or so of life, what we desperately want is for them to ...

A culturally appropriate model of end of life care is being developed in Ghana in order to empower countries in Africa where palliative care is scarce. COMPASS Ghana is the brainchild of health ...