Palliative Care

CHICAGO — Early palliative care via telehealth had an equivalent impact on quality of life as in-person visits for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer, according to study findings presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.

Palliative care significantly improved quality of life among patients hospitalized for bone marrow transplant, according to results of a multicenter randomized trial.

Use of a palliative care screening tool within 24 hours of ICU admission vs. traditional consultative methods helped identify more patients in need of this type of care, according to results published in Critical Care Nurse.

Bhavika Gandhi, MD, understands the difficulty patients with advanced chronic kidney disease may face when it is time to make a decision about going on dialysis.

In the 1990s, leadership of the Renal Physicians Association and the American Society of Nephrology authorized development of Shared Decision-Making in the Appropriate Initiation of and Withdrawal from Dialysis.

Nearly three-quarters of patients with systemic sclerosis demonstrate symptom burden that met the threshold for needing specialist palliative care, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

More older patients with COPD, dementia or kidney failure had a palliative care consultation shortly after admission through a default ordering system vs. usual care, according to study results published in JAMA.

Receiving care from a palliative telecare team resulted in more improvements in quality of life than usual care among patients with COPD, interstitial lung disease or heart failure, according to study results published in JAMA.

Psilocybin significantly reduced depression symptoms in patients with cancer, results from a phase 2 study published in Cancer showed.

SAN DIEGO — Patients with lymphoma who receive palliative care incur significantly lower total hospitalization charges than patients who do not, according to study findings presented at ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.