Hospice & Palliative Medicine
Conference Coverage
Nanotherapies make inroads in wound regeneration
Law & Medicine
DNR orders and medical futility
News
VIDEO: How to improve cancer survivorship planning
News
Comfort care informs critical care societies’ Choosing Wisely list
News
Five criteria doubled palliative care, cut hospital readmissions
Major finding: Thirty-day readmission rates fell from 36% before use of the criteria to 17% after use of the criteria – a significant improvement...
News
Hospice usage up but not delivered soon enough, study finds
News
Few states meet palliative care benchmark
Commentary
Tigger and end-of-life talk
News
Lower costs documented in hospitals with palliative care programs
Major finding: ICU length of stay in the last 6 months of life was 0.4 days shorter and hospice length of stay was 1.6 days longer at hospitals...
News
Cancer patients embrace pioneer assisted-suicide program
Major finding: None of the 114 patients who participated in the Death with Dignity (assisted-suicide) program during a 2-year period, nor their...
News
YouTube poor source of palliative information
Major finding: In all, 133 palliative care videos (28%) were good quality and 335 were poor quality (72%).Data source: Retrospective analysis of...