Innovative answers to the challenges of providing serious illness care. At the UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care, our researchers focus on seeking out innovative answers for palliative ...

Doctors often prescribe strong medications to relieve pain, distress and discomfort in palliative care, but many of these ...

Palliative care has an image problem. Despite what people think, it's not some kind of "Grim Reaper service," say two of Canada's leading experts in this field of medicine. Ideally, it should ...

Palliative care is sometimes called supportive care. It offers relief, support and comfort to people, both in and out of the hospital setting. Having palliative care doesn’t mean you will die soon. It ...

Researchers evaluated billing for early palliative care among Medicare beneficiaries who were newly diagnosed with 1 of 6 common distant-stage cancers.

For patients with distant-stage cancers, there was an increase in early palliative care (PC) billing from 2010 to 2019, but ...

For patients with distant-stage cancers, there was an increase in early palliative care (PC) billing from 2010 to 201 ...