Sentences with phrase «initiating palliative»

While of obvious importance to patients, these findings are also tremendously important to hospitals and policymakers who are concerned with initiating palliative care earlier in the disease course.

«Emergency department - initiated palliative care consultation improved QOL [quality of life] in patients with advanced cancer and does not seem to shorten survival; the impact on health care utilization and depression is less clear and warrants further study,» the study concludes.

Corita R. Grudzen, M.D., M.S.H.S., of New York University, and coauthors conducted a randomized clinical trial to compare quality of life, depression, health care utilization and survival in ED patients with advanced cancer randomly assigned to an intervention with an ED - initiated palliative care consultation vs. usual care.

Herein, we present results from the first trial of ED - initiated palliative care in advanced cancer, proving that early referral to palliative care significantly improves QOL and does not seem to have a negative impact on survival.

This should not only be reassuring to hospitals who hope to initiate palliative care triggers from the ED but also provoke further interest among policymakers hoping to find ways to decrease disparities in access to palliative care.

To evaluate the impact of ED - initiated palliative care consultation on QOL, depression, health care utilization, and survival in patients with advanced cancer, we conducted a patient - level, single center, single - blind pilot RCT of 136 participants.

The most common circumstances that lead up to the decision to initiate palliative care include:

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The APC Woman Leader in the state, Dr. Janeth Oyubu, while pledging the support of the APC women in the state for the government, alleged that the PDP government had hijacked all the palliatives initiated by the Buhari government.

A palliative care consultation initiated in the emergency department (ED) for patients with advanced cancer was associated with improved quality of life and did not seem to shorten survival, according to an article published online by JAMA Oncology.

«Palliative care initiated in the ED associated with improved quality of life.»