Data Collection Improves Patient Outcomes in Hospice, Palliative Care
Routine data collection and feedback at point-of-care improves most patient outcomes in hospice and palliative care.
Routine data collection and feedback at point-of-care improves most patient outcomes in hospice and palliative care.
Patients enrolled in hospice care had lower rates of healthcare utilization, and their costs for care were less during their last year of life.
A third of patients beginning palliative care die within a week.
Palliative Care in Oncology Symposium: Palliative care for non-small cell lung cancer may not increase healthcare costs in the last 30 days of life.
Findings among older patients with terminal ovarian cancer receiving hospice care.
Despite an increase in the use of hospice, the use of costly services for patients with ovarian cancer also increased.
Late admission more likely for younger patients, married men, hematologic malignancies.
Diarrhea is a treatment symptom as common as hair loss but with deadlier implications.
There is still more work to be done to ensure that palliative care is understood.
With the cost of cancer care rising, an ASCO task force has been established to create a framework for assessing relative value of cancer treatment.