Background: Access to palliative care services is variable, and many inpatients do not
receive palliative care. An overview of potential barriers could facilitate the development of …

Early palliative and supportive care referral is the standard of care for many malignancies.
This paradigm results in improvements in patients' symptoms and quality of life and …

Background With increasing complexity of our aging inpatient population, we implemented
an interprofessional geriatric and palliative care intervention on a hospitalist service. This …

Eighty-one percent of persons living with cancer have an emergency department (ED) visit
within the last 6 months of life. Many cancer patients in the ED are at an advanced stage with …

Introduction Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a significant complication of cirrhosis, known to
be associated with hospital readmission. However, few new serological indicators …

Background Integration of symptom and palliative care for people with advanced cancer is
established in many tumour types, but its role in people with hepatocellular carcinoma …

Objective: The effectiveness of family music therapy for patients with advanced palliative
care hepatocellular carcinoma and their main caregivers was investigated. Methods: The …

Background: Little is known about facilitators of and barriers to palliative care referral for
people with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The objective of this study is to identify …

Aims and background Hepatic hydrothorax, which presents as an unexplained pleural
effusion, is one of the important complications in patients with end-stage cirrhosis. It has a …

The vast majority of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are diagnosed with
unresectable, locallyadvanced, or metastatic disease at diagnosis [1–3]. Liver-directed or …