Palliative care integration in oncology improves quality of life, reduces aggressive end-of-life care, and may prolong survival, while lowering healthcare costs. Operational challenges include ...

Palliative care, a type of healthcare for patients with life-threatening diseases, focuses on improving quality of life and managing pain. Unlike healthcare professionals who treat diseases or ...

Palliative care should be viewed as a supportive element of care for patients with chronic illnesses at all stages of their disease. Palliative care is focused on managing symptoms and providing ...

The findings can help reduce barriers that delay the onset of recommended palliative care in advanced cancer. Early palliative care can be delivered via telehealth with equivalent quality-of-life ...

Early palliative care, palliative care integrated with oncology care early in the course of illness, has myriad benefits for patients and their caregivers, including improved quality of life, reduced ...

In the article that accompanies this editorial, Lu et al 7 analyzed data from the National Inpatient Sample, the largest publicly available all-payer inpatient database in the United States, to ...

Despite proven benefits for patients and value for health systems, access to palliative care remains limited due to lack of awareness and workforce shortages. Low reimbursement rates have made matters ...

The hospice movement got its start in the United States right here in New Haven. In the late 1960s, former Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Dean Florence Schorske Wald attended a speech given by hospice ...