The principles of palliative care have made their way into the medical zeitgeist, which is great progress. Now is the moment to empower all doctors and specialists to incorporate this human-centered ...

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, ...

Panelists explain the need and the challenges with including principles of palliative care in oncology clinical pathways. Surabhi Dangi-Garimella, PhD, asked the panelists to comment on whether ...

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.

Anand Iyer, M.D., MSPH, (Assistant Professor, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care) co-chaired a policy statement in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine which highlights ten ...

The field of palliative care is a relatively recent entrant to the U.S. health care landscape. For those who may not know, palliative care is a new team-based medical specialty that focuses on relief ...

Palliative care sees the whole person, and not just a set of symptoms, says Italian physician Adriana Turriziani. Turriziani noted that one of the beautiful things about palliative care is that the ...

Changing demographics in the United States and the increase in chronic disease provide challenges for neuroscience nurses. The PDMC has been developed to help the neuroscience nurse provide ...

Palliative care is an essential component of comprehensive healthcare, particularly for patients suffering from chronic, life-limiting, and ...

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.

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic, progressive neurological disease affecting 1.5 million Americans. The modern success of pharmacology and deep-brain stimulation surgery to treat the motor ...