Patients with HM, receive less palliative care services, regardless of their higher symptom burden compared to patients with solid tumours. Structured approaches and models of early integration have shown substantial benefits, including improved pain and symptom management, shorter hospital stays and ...
Despite that early integration of palliative care is recommended in advanced cancer patients, referrals to outpatient specialised palliative care (SPC) frequently occur late. Well-defined referral criteria are still missing. We analysed indicators associated with early (ER) and late referral (LR) to S...
1.Reviewevidenceconcerninghealthoutcomesassociatedwiththeearlyintegrationofpalliativecarewithstandardoncologycareforpatientswithadvancedcancer.2.Discussbarrierstotheearlyintegrationofpalliativecarewithstandardoncologycareforpatientswithadvancedcancer.ARTICLETITLE:EarlyIntegrationofPalliativeCareServicesWithStandardOncologyCarefor...
Introduction Cardiff and Vale tertiary care and cancer centre services are currently developing a 10-year strategy for support of cancer patients in acute settings. An important aim is to understand how Specialist Palliative Care Teams (SPCTs) and Acute Oncology Services (AOS) can, together, best...
Is early integration of palliative home care in oncology treatment feasible and acceptable for advanced cancer patients and their health care providers? A ... Nurses of PHC teams are able to deliver early palliative care to advanced cancer patients. However, more attention needs to be given to ...
Razaie reviewed 2 studies of palliative care and its impact on patients with cancer, both of which found promising results. The first, a study with findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), investigated early integration of palliative care in patients wit...
Early integration of palliative home care (PHC) might positively affect people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, PHC as a holistic approach is not well integrated in clinical practice at the end-stage COPD. General practitioners (GPs) and community nurses (CNs) are highly...
Objective To audit the quality of care delivered in our Outpatient Clinic (OC) after its inception following an early palliative care (EPC) model, and to compare our experience with the relevant literature. Material and methods A descriptive observational retrospective study was conduct...
In light of their medical fragility and unpredictable trajectories, children with chronic complex conditions are ideal candidates for palliative care. Integration of palliative care concurrently with curative or life-prolonging therapies results in improved outcomes and is widely endorsed as the most ...
[EOL] comfort,” Suriya Baskar, MD, resident physician in the Internal Medicine Department at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, wrote in the study with coinvestigators.1“The results of this study support the integration of palliative care in [patients with] early-onset [CRC] presenting with ...