Healthcare administrators constantly aim to deliver genuine value-based care. We talk about reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and delivering treatment ...

Patients in their final weeks or months of life can turn to hospice care to manage their transition. But until then, patients have another option to help them live with serious illnesses. KERA’s Sam ...

Centene Corporation CNC is broadening its supportive care services in Ohio through a new partnership between its Buckeye ...

"Providers are hopefully becoming more aware and are better able to share with patients that the word ‘palliative’ can actually suggest the availability of treatment options that can help to improve ...

About The Study: A stepped-care model, with palliative care visits occurring only at key points in patients’ cancer trajectories and using a decrement in quality of life to trigger more intensive ...

McMaster University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. McMaster University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. In a medical system that seems to be ...

Early palliative care discussions, ideally within eight weeks of diagnosis, are crucial for advanced cancer patients. Integrating palliative care with curative treatment improves quality of life and ...

Implementing patient-centered palliative care therapies, including prescribing, adjusting or discontinuing medications as needed, may help control symptoms and improve quality of life for people with ...

Palliative care may be the frontrunner for the title of most misunderstood branch of medical practice. It is frequently confused with its “cousin” specialty, hospice care, perhaps because both ...

For patients with a cancer diagnosis, early specialty palliative care is considered the standard of care. However, many patients with advanced cancer do not consistently receive specialty palliative ...

Palliative care can shorten the length of stay for severely ill surgical patients who require ventilation, according to a study published in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.