Explore the latest in end-of-life care, including studies of prognosis, advance directives, spiritual support, and more.
This study compares differences in caregiver-reported hospice quality across categories of ownership, including for-profit private equity firm (PEF)/publicly traded company (PTC)鈥搊wned and non-PEF/PTC鈥搊wned hospices as well as not-for-profit鈥搊wned hospices.
This quality improvement study evaluates the experiences of patients with head and neck cancer and next of kin with a hybrid palliative care pathway.
This cohort study investigates goals and purposes of surgical interventions among youths receiving palliative care.
This cohort study investigates whether the timing of palliative care initiation is associated with the aggressiveness of end-of-life care among patients with ovarian cancer.
In this narrative medicine essay, a pediatric palliative care physician undergoing in vitro fertilization extends her compassionate solidarity to female physicians who, like her, are anxious to start their families.
This Viewpoint discusses aspects of medical aid in dying laws in the US, including patient access, clinician authorization, and waiting periods.
This Viewpoint considers whether medical assistance in dying should be included as a tenet of palliative care medicine.
This JAMA Patient Page describes the hospice model of medical care for people with terminal illness.
This randomized, multisite, comparative effectiveness trial investigates whether early palliative care delivered via video or in-person visits demonstrated equivalent effects on quality of life for patients with advanced non鈥搒mall cell lung cancer and their caregivers.
This study compares likelihood of withdrawal of life-supporting treatment and mortality in patients with complete cervical spinal cord injury with different types of insurance.
This randomized clinical trial investigates the change in quality of life, survival rates, and self-management skills associated with an early palliative care program for patients with advanced cancer.
This cohort study assesses the feasibility and acceptability of a structured pediatric advance care planning program among clinicians, parents of children with serious illness, and adolescents and young adults with serious illness.
This cohort study examines patients鈥� insurance type and the decision to withdraw life-sustaining treatment in trauma patients who are critically injured using data from level I and level II trauma centers in the US.
This Viewpoint examines how artificial intelligence could support surrogate decision-makers while addressing some of the attendant epistemic and moral challenges.
This cross-sectional study compares potentially burdensome hospital treatments and hospitalizations and postdischarge care for Medicare decedents in Medicare advantage vs traditional Medicare at the end of life.
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