Serious Illness

Black individuals in the U.S. with serious illnesses receive disproportionately poor pain management and health care communication, compared with white individuals, a focus group led by the Center to Advance Palliative Care showed.

Clinicians in acute or post-acute care settings may delay or avoid serious illness conversations with patients whose cancer prognoses are worsening out of deference to the patient’s oncologist, according to study findings.

Vaccination reduced influenza-related hospitalizations by around one-third in the Southern Hemisphere this year, according to interim data published Thursday by the CDC.

Infants born during spring and summer months are the most likely to have a first-season medically attended case of respiratory syncytial virus, according to a study published in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.

The American Cancer Society launched a national training and credentialing program designed to standardize high-quality, expert patient navigation for individuals with cancer and their caregivers.

Nearly 20% of deceased patients in a Californian health care system were marked as alive with a serious illness in the electronic health record, resulting in hundreds of unnecessary outreach efforts, according to researchers.

WASHINGTON — Cases of a rare cannabis-related condition increased significantly in one Michigan hospital after the state legalized marijuana, researchers reported here.

The medical profession has increasingly embraced palliative care as a key component of patient-centered therapy.

A new study reinforced that influenza vaccination protects children from serious illness even when vaccines are a poor match for circulating viruses.

A telehealth intervention for family caregivers of patients with advanced HF that addressed quality of life, mood or burden did not demonstrate clinically better outcomes compared with no intervention.