Monique Chatman is a nurse practitioner at Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center where her daily duties involve working with people receiving care. “As a nurse practitioner working in palliative ...

To scale palliative care, states should engage community members in serious illness coalitions, design standards for ...

We propose the creation of a national strategy for palliative care led by the federal government and supported by payers and regulators. The strategy would include defined structures and processes ...

A scientific statement has been published by the AHA regarding palliative and end-of-life care in patients with critical cardiovascular illness.

Objectives To evaluate the impact of palliative home care support on the quality of care and costs in the last 14 days of life. Design Matched cohort study using linked administrative databases.

Two hundred eighty-four quality measures within 13 measure sets were identified. The most common domains for measure content were Physical Aspects of Care (35%) and Structure and Processes of Care (22 ...

Medically reviewed by Forest Miller, OTR/LPalliative care focuses on relieving distressing symptoms to improve the quality of ...