More research is needed to understand the association, said Dr. Amy Kelley, an associate professor in the Brookdale department of geriatrics and
palliative medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.
«The fact that we found greater cost savings for cancer patients with more comorbidities than for those with fewer comorbidities raises the question of whether similar results would be observed in patients with other serious illnesses and multimorbidity,» said Professor Peter May of Trinity College Dublin and a former visiting research fellow in the Department of Geriatrics and
Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and co-author of the study.
Not exact matches
«If given to all approximately 1.5 million nursing home residents, a one percent drop in hospitalizations would translate to thousands fewer being hospitalized,» said Stefan Gravenstein, MD, MPH, lead author of the study, Director of the Center for Geriatrics and
Palliative Care
at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, and on faculty
at both the Case Western Reserve University School of
Medicine and adjunct
at the Warren Alpert Medical School
at Brown University.
Palliative care is a «fairly new medical specialty that has proven to substantially improve patient outcomes when it's delivered alongside routine treatments,» says Sean Morrison, M.D., director of the National
Palliative Care Research Center and a professor
at Mount Sinai's School of
Medicine.
People living with serious illness who receive
palliative care have better quality of life and fewer symptoms than those who don't receive
palliative care, according to a new study by researchers
at the University of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine.
Cherny, an oncologist and
palliative medicine specialist who is chair of humanistic
medicine at Shaare Zedek Medical Centre, Jerusalem, Israel, added: «The designation also indicates that the centre is not only providing a clinical service but that it has programmes developed both to push the boundaries of knowledge through research and to teach the essential skills required for the provision of
palliative care to cancer patients.»
«Until now, physicians have taken a «wait and see» approach to antiviral therapies following transplantation,» says Toor, a hematologist - oncologist in the Bone Marrow Transplant Program and member of the Developmental Therapeutics research program
at VCU Massey Cancer Center as well as professor in the Division of Hematology, Oncology and
Palliative Care
at the VCU School of
Medicine.
«We already know that coordinated, patient - centered
palliative care improves care quality, enhances survival, and reduces costs for persons with cancer,» said R. Sean Morrison, MD, Director of the National Palliative Care Research Center and Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and lead author of
palliative care improves care quality, enhances survival, and reduces costs for persons with cancer,» said R. Sean Morrison, MD, Director of the National
Palliative Care Research Center and Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and lead author of
Palliative Care Research Center and Professor of Geriatrics and
Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and lead author of
Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai and lead author of the study.
The research did uncover some positive findings, said VJ Periyakoil, MD, clinical associate professor of
medicine at Stanford and director of the Stanford
Palliative Care Education and Training Program, who was not involved with the study.
Susan C. Miller, professor (research) of health services, policy and practice in the Brown University School of Public Health and lead author of the study in the Journal of
Palliative Medicine, worked with colleagues to survey nursing directors at more than 1,900 nursing homes around the country between July 2009 and June 2010 to assess their knowledge of palliative care and their facility's implementation of key palliative care
Palliative Medicine, worked with colleagues to survey nursing directors
at more than 1,900 nursing homes around the country between July 2009 and June 2010 to assess their knowledge of
palliative care and their facility's implementation of key palliative care
palliative care and their facility's implementation of key
palliative care
palliative care practices.
A systematic review of studies from 2011 - 2016 led by Katherine Courtright, MD, MS, an instructor of
Medicine in the division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care and the
Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center
at Penn, found that among more than 795,000 Americans who were part of 150 different studies, 63 percent had not completed any advance directive.
Patients with incurable cancer and numerous other serious health conditions who consulted with a
palliative care team within two days of hospitalization had significant savings in hospital costs, according to a new study led by researchers
at the Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai.
His key investments in regenerative
medicine technologies have laid the groundwork for novel approaches to treatments aimed
at generating not merely
palliative but actual curative and restorative therapies.
Many patients do not tell their doctors how much pain they are in, so «doctors generally should approach patients in pain with the assumption that underreporting is a real likelihood,» says Russell Portenoy, MD, chairman of the Department of Pain
Medicine and
Palliative Care
at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City.
But avoiding the hospital isn't always feasible and may not be best for all patients, says Eduardo Bruera, M.D., chair of
palliative care and rehabilitation
medicine at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston.
After a long career in academic emergency
medicine and
palliative medicine, I am now a physician executive in Dallas, where I write, teach undergraduates
at the University of Texas
at Dallas, front a cover band, and play mediocre golf when time allows.
She is continuing her studies
at the Chi Institute of Chinese
Medicine in Reddick, FL to earn her Certified TCVM
Palliative & End - Of - Life Practitioner (CTPEP) certification and her Certified Veterinary Chinese Herbalist (CVCH) certification.