Search results for "Palliative Care"
Palliative care for a pandemic
In a recent interview, Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, described how palliative care expertise and resources are, and can be, applied to the current crisis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/08/3.htm
8 Apr 2020
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
Perspectives Examples
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/write/perspectives.html
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
Considering ketamine
Evidence is limited, but low-dose ketamine may be an appropriate adjunct or alternative to opioids for certain patients in pain.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/08/02/free/considering-ketamine.htm
2 Aug 2023
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
February 2020
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/02/
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
December 2015
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/12/
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