Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Improve Palliative Care
United States senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV), John Barrasso (R-WY), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Deb Fischer (R-NE) sponsored a bill that…
United States senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV), John Barrasso (R-WY), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Deb Fischer (R-NE) sponsored a bill that…
Hospice care plays a crucial role in supporting terminally ill cancer patients during the final stages of their lives. The…
Hospice care plays a significant role in providing comfort, support, and dignity to individuals with life-limiting illnesses and their families.…
On January 30, 2023, the Biden administration announced an to end the COVID-19 national emergency and the Public Health Emergency…
Professor of Care Ethics, Els van Wijngaarden and colleagues in the Netherlands listened to a group of elderly people, who…
With a growing number of states recently enacting medical cannabis legislation, many patients entering palliative care may already be using…
Writing for the Mayo Clinic, Mary K Buss, MD, MPH made an interesting observation: “Many PCPs already engage in primary…
Sometimes, we are put into a difficult position of communicating information that involves bad news such as, a poor prognosis…
The American Society of Clinical Oncology describes hospice as an essential component of end-of-life (EOL) care.1 As such, hospice utilization…
Clinicians face multiple barriers to having a hospice conversation with patients. Among those barriers are time constraints and the potential…