Baby boomers have never needed more care to ease their pain and suffering. But there simply aren't enough specialists to get the job done. There's a shortfall of as many as 18,000 physicians focused ...

A Cochrane Review into the effectiveness of hospital-based specialist palliative care has found evidence that when compared to usual care, it may slightly improve patient satisfaction and depression, ...

Only a small fraction of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) take advantage of specialty palliative care that aims to improve their well-being and make their final months or years more ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Many of us in the oncology and palliative care communities read with great interest the guidelines from the ASCO ...

They also found that outpatient palliative care visits, which includes telehealth visits, almost doubled, which was mostly driven by advanced practice clinician specialists; advanced practice ...

Why? MedPage Today posed this question to Marie A. Bakitas, DNSc, NP-C, FAAN, a clinician and researcher, whose research has shed light on this conundrum. In this interview, Dr. Bakitas, Associate ...

Conducting goals of care conversations (GOCC) with specialty palliative consults (SPC) was associated with lower cost-related outcomes for both patients and hospitals, according to a September study ...

Palliative care was recently granted formal specialty status by the American Board of Medical Specialties. Despite the growing number of clinicians specializing in this field, "basic palliative skills ...

After receiving a palliative care referral, a palliative registered nurse will call and explain what palliative care is to the patient and their designated healthcare agent. If the individual is ...

Baby boomers have never needed more care to ease their pain and suffering. But there simply aren't enough specialists to get the job done. There's a shortfall of as many as 18,000 physicians focused ...