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 ...

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

Palliative care services have had no dedicated funding source akin to the Medicare hospice benefit, and because the cost of interdisciplinary teams typically exceeds the fee-for-service revenue ...

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

Palliative care needs to be improved before the government considers the introduction of voluntary assisted euthanasia, two of Hospice Malta's health professionals said.

But at other times, you may need very little help from your healthcare team. You might be referred to a palliative care team. This is a team of specialists who can help you manage symptoms such as ...

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the use of the Palliative Care Screening Tool (PCST) for the recommendation of palliative care among older patients admitted to an Intensive Care ...

Objectives To examine access to palliative care between different disease trajectories and compare to other geographic areas. Design A retrospective population-based decedent cohort study using linked ...

Palliative care, since its inception over 60 years ago, has set the standard of how to care for people who are dying. Key features among these standards have been the professional development of ...

“I had no job, no connections. I saw my father working hard at a cafeteria and to support him, I started working as a cart puller. It was heavy work. One day of work felt like a whole week ...

Objective To examine the effects of home-based transitional palliative care for patients with end-stage heart failure (ESHF) after hospital discharge. Methods This was a randomised controlled trial ...