Over the past five decades, palliative care has evolved from serving patients at the end of life
into a highly specialized discipline focused on delivering supportive care to patients with life …

Background Despite the high potential to improve the quality of life of patients and families,
palliative care services face significant obstacles to their use. In countries with high-resource …

Background Although similar to cancer patients regarding symptom burden and prognosis,
patients with heart failure (HF) tend to receive palliative care far less frequently. We sought …

Background: Despite the documented benefits of palliative and hospice care on improving
patients' quality of life, these services remain underutilized. Multiple factors limit the …

BACKGROUND: Palliative care has been progressively adopted by American cancer
centers; however, referrals to palliative care continue to occur late in the trajectory of illness …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Studies using local samples suggest that racial minorities
anticipate a greater preference for life-sustaining treatment when faced with a terminal …

Given the acute and often life-limiting nature of surgical illness, as well as the potential for
treatment to induce further suffering, surgical patients have considerable palliative care …

Objective: To review the use of screening criteria (also known as “triggers”) as a mechanism
for engaging palliative care consultants to assist with care of critically ill patients and their …

Importance Palliative care improves health outcomes, but studies of the differences in the
delivery of palliative care to patients with different types of serious illness are lacking …

Background Journey mapping involves the creation of visual narrative timelines depicting
the multidimensional relationship between a consumer and a service. The use of journey …