Palliative Care News

Patients receiving palliative care who were treated with risperidone and haloperidol displayed significantly greater distressing symptoms of delirium relative to those who were treated with placebo, according to clinical trial results published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Inpatient palliative care improved quality of life among hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients, according to a nonblinded randomized clinical trial published in JAMA.

Tonya Edwards, a clinical nurse in palliative care at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, received the 2016 Brown Foundation Award for Excellence in Oncology Nursing.

Rates of high-intensity end-of-life care have remained high among children with cancer, especially those with hematologic malignancies, according to a retrospective analysis conducted in Ontario, Canada.

Uridine triacetate safely and rapidly reversed severe acute cardiotoxicity and neurotoxicity from overdose of capecitabine and 5-FU chemotherapy, according to results of two open-label clinical studies.

Patients with advanced cancer should receive dedicated, early palliative care concurrently with standard oncology treatment, according to ASCO’s updated guidelines published in Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Only one-fourth of U.S. hospitals complied with established quality standards for having a fully staffed palliative care team, according to study results published in Health Affairs.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The HemOnc Today and Healio.com/HemOnc team will present comprehensive live coverage from the annual ESMO congress.

A question based on a clinicians’ judgment designed to identify patients for palliative care failed to predict mortality in a primary care population, according to findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Treatment with and response to methylnaltrexone for opioid-induced constipation appeared associated with improved OS in patients with advanced cancers, according to a post-hoc analysis of two randomized trials.