Search results for "End of Life Care"
August 31, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/31/
Program targeting families of ICU decedents associated with higher ratings of emotional, spiritual support
Bereaved families who participated in the 3 Wishes Program, in which clinicians elicit and fulfill simple wishes for dying patients and their families, rated their emotional and spiritual support significantly higher than those who did not participate.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/05/25/program-targeting-families-of-ICU-decedents-associated-with-higher-ratings-of-emotional-spiritual-support.htm
25 May 2022
Project allows ICU patients, families to personalize dying process
Last wishes of ICU patients, from bagpipe music to charitable donations, were fulfilled by researchers, who found positive impact on patients, families, and clinicians.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/07/15/1.htm
15 Jul 2015
Timely palliative care for inpatients with advanced cancer has cost-saving effect, study shows
Providing earlier palliative care consultation to patients with advanced cancer significantly lowers direct costs of hospital care, according to a multicenter study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/06/17/4.htm
17 Jun 2015
February issue is online and in the mail
This issue highlights discussions around feeding tubes in advanced dementia and decision making about ICU admission.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/02/13/5.htm
13 Feb 2019
Give them choice or give them guidance?
Study looks at patients' autonomy versus their best interest.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/07/patient-autonomy.htm
15 Jul 2015
Writing and wishing
Understanding patients' and families' perspectives plays a big part in successful end-of-life care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/09/qa.htm
15 Sep 2012
Top Docs
Our call for nominations last spring yielded an impressive number of nominees, from which our editorial board selected the ten featured here. These physicians have done admirable work in patient rounding, resident education, technology, workload balance, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/11/coverstory.htm
15 Nov 2013
Early palliative care improves quality of life in patients with metastatic lung cancer
AHRQ releases data on preventable heart failure hospitalizations
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/08/25/3.htm
25 Aug 2010
It's not an admission, it's an experience
When former hospitalist M. Bridget Duffy, MD, became chief experience officer at the Cleveland Clinic last year, she explored every aspect of the hospital’s operation and set out to improve it. The changes instituted by her office of patient experience are making the Cleveland Clinic look and feel more like part of a very customer-service-oriented industry. That's no coincidence, say experts.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/02/cover.htm
15 Feb 2008