End Of Life Care

Patients with gastrointestinal cancers face ongoing racial/ethnicity-based disparities in end-of-life pain management, specifically in terms of access to and utilization of opioids, study results showed.

HONOLULU — Critical care, especially at the end of a patient’s life, requires practitioners to not only be vulnerable, but to accept and communicate uncertainty and to build trust with both the patients and their families.

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Mettle Health’s Claritza Rios, MD and Bridget Sumser, SW about misconceptions surrounding palliative care, communication training as self-care for physicians and more.

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Patients with cancer who took part in advance care planning tended to have less aggressive and more comfort-based end-of-life care than those who did not, according to a study conducted by researchers at Regenstrief Institute.

WASHINGTON — A guide given to clinicians with patient-specific data and talking points resulted in more documented conversations about goals-of-care, according to a presentation at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

Bereaved parents prioritized satisfactory symptom management above all other aspects of end-of-life care for their children who died of cancer, study results showed.

Meaningful end-of-life care efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic included maintaining relationships with isolated patients, connecting patients to families and creating humanistic episodes, according to study results published in CHEST.

A machine learning algorithm that triggered electronic reminders to health care providers increased the rate at which providers and patients spoke about end-of-life care preferences, according to randomized trial results.

Researchers identified substantial racial and ethnic disparities in access to prescription opioids among older patients with cancer nearing end of life, according to study results published in Journal of Clinical Oncology.