Palliative Care is the medical specialty focused on relief of the pain, stress and other debilitating symptoms of serious illness. Palliative care is not dependent on prognosis and can be delivered at ...

Dr. Bratches’ joint-funded ICAR/CPSC award will be used to fund a mixed-method explanatory sequential study to understand family caregiver strategies to manage medication refusals for persons living ...

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

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

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

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

Choices Program, which supports patients in Delaware, Otsego, and Schoharie counties, was created to bring in-home palliative care services to older adults who are facing a serious illness. Palliative ...

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

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 ...

(HealthDay News) — 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 ...