Search results for "Palliative Care"

Results 1 - 11 of about 11 for "Palliative Care".

AHA offers guidance on palliative pharmacotherapy for cardiovascular disease

A scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA) calls for use of guideline-directed and evidence-based palliative therapies in end-stage heart failure, pulmonary arterial hypertension, coronary heart disease, and other cardiac conditions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/07/10/aha-offers-guidance-on-palliative-pharmacotherapy-for-cardiovascular-disease.htm
10 Jul 2024

Palliative care consults by default did not affect inpatient length of stay

Implementation of a default, opt-out palliative care consultation intervention for older hospital patients with advanced chronic illnesses did increase consult rates from 16.6% to 43.9% and significantly increased odds of discharge to hospice.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/24/palliative-care-consults-by-default-did-not-affect-inpatient-length-of-stay.htm
24 Jan 2024

Early palliative care did not improve quality of life in cancer surgery patients

The trial randomly assigned participants scheduled for intra-abdominal cancer operations to receive either usual care or an intervention including preoperative consultation with palliative care specialists and postoperative inpatient and outpatient palliative care follow-up for 90 days.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/05/24/early-palliative-care-did-not-improve-quality-of-life-in-cancer-surgery-patients.htm
24 May 2023

Hospital-based palliative care may reduce ICU use

Implementation of palliative care services versus no implementation was associated with a 10% reduction in ICU use during terminal hospitalizations, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/01/15/4.htm
15 Jan 2020

Patients increasingly discharged alive from inpatient palliative care, referred to home or outpatient programs

Cancer was still the most common primary diagnosis in those receiving inpatient palliative care, but other diagnoses are becoming more common, according to a retrospective analysis from 2013 to 2017.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/12/11/4.htm
11 Dec 2019

EHR-based mortality prediction model may help identify patients for palliative care

One hospital's electronic health record (EHR) automatically calculated a score predicting risk for death within six months for medical patients on a hospitalist service, and those with a score of 0.30 or greater were deemed eligible for a palliative care consult.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/07/24/2.htm
24 Jul 2019

Palliative care guidelines updated with increased focus on collaboration, communication

The guidelines from the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care focus on two main concepts: that palliative care is inclusive of all people with serious illness and that timely consideration of palliative care is the responsibility of all who care for the seriously ill.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/11/07/4.htm
7 Nov 2018

Specialist palliative care services linked with small positive effect on quality of life

The effect of palliative care on quality of life appeared to be more pronounced for patients with cancer and for those who received palliative care early, according to the review and meta-analysis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/07/12/4.htm
12 Jul 2017