While palliative care remains an uncommon offering among home-based health care providers, forward-thinking providers have ...

Physicians engaged in palliative and end-of-life care can appreciate the tremendous value social workers add to an ...

Dr. Wall’s study objective is to investigate, for the first time, specialty palliative care referral timing, reasons and barriers in women with cervical cancer. Trends in referral patterns will be ...

Oncology nurses and APPs provide support and can help to facilitate conversations with patients and families during ...

For patients with distant-stage cancers, there was an increase in early palliative care (PC) billing from 2010 to 2019, but the level remained low, according to a study published online March 7 in the ...

Providence Care’s AB Smith Homestead House officially opened its doors to its first patient and their family on the afternoon ...

A default palliative care referral intervention increased palliative care consultations by more than fivefold and decreased end-of-life systemic therapy by more than half among patients with ...

Perinatal palliative care remains rare. But for families like the Ngos, it provides a small sense of control when it's needed ...

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 ...

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 ...