Hospice & Palliative Medicine
Opinion
New developments and barriers to palliative care
The need for palliative care in the United States is projected to grow significantly in the next decades.
From the Journals
ILD progression, not diagnosis, triggers palliative care
“There is often a lack of preparedness for death by both patients and providers, contributing to increased distress.”
Latest News
Doc accused of killing 14 patients in the ICU: Upcoming trial notes patient safety lapses
Patient safety experts say that this could have happened at many U.S. hospitals.
Feature
Palliative care specialists seek greater role in lung disease
Feature
Black-owned hospice seeks to bring greater ease in dying to Black families
Tennessee data shows that in Nashville just 19% of hospice patients are Black, although they make up 27% of the capital city’s population.
News
Value of palliative care shines clearly in a crisis
Hospitalists have played key roles in clarifying and redefining the new role for palliative care during the pandemic.
From the Journals
Early palliative care fails to improve QOL in advanced heart failure
“My first reaction is disappointment. We had hoped to see the ENABLE program, which had been successful in cancer, translate to the heart failure...
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With life in the balance, a pediatric palliative care program expands its work to adults
“It brings up feelings like I had after 9/11 – a unified approach to surviving this as people, as a community, the idea that ‘we will get through...
Perspectives
Call for volunteers for palliative care in COVID-19
NYC Health + Hospitals needs volunteers trained in palliative care to help patients remotely via telemedicine.
Conference Coverage
Early palliative care consult decreases in-hospital mortality
NEW ORLEANS – More discharges to hospice, and more health care surrogates chosen, when palliative care consultation occurs within 24 hours of ICU...