Moving palliative care sessions to telehealth might enable more patients to get such care — assuming there was no great loss from not being in person.

Young himself at that time Leiter — a “newly minted palliative care fellow”— found the case an especially devastating one: 21-year-old Carlos had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia ...

Overall, the study concluded that an increasing proportion of patients with poor-prognosis cancer received palliative care, and the number of patients cared for by enhanced practice specialists ...

Palliative care specialists can help patients understand their prognosis and their treatment options - and help them be comfortable.

Palliative care is a branch of medicine intended for patients with terminal illnesses, from the moment of diagnosis until the ...

The palliative specialist will help fill out or update the advance directive and/or MOLST based on the decisions made during the goals of care discussion.

Clinical Challenges > ASH: AML Clinical Challenges: Specialist Palliative Care in Acute Myeloid Leukemia — Advocates say patients would benefit greatly from more referrals by Randy Dotinga ...

Sharma explains that seeing a palliative care expert is similar to seeing another medical specialist, with the format of care dependent on the practice and individualized for each patient.

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 ...

Palliative care has an image problem. It’s a medical specialty that focuses on providing relief from the symptoms and stress of a serious illness to improve the quality of life for both patient ...

Some advocates argue that primary care doctors, surgeons and other specialists could add palliative medicine to their usual care. Removing bottlenecks for certification of palliative care ...