Early Specialty Palliative Care — Translating Data in Oncology into Practice

Early Specialty Palliative Care — Translating Data in Oncology into Practice

Parikh RB; Kirch RA; Smith TJ; Temel JS

New England Journal Of Medicine

2013

Palliative care suffers from an identity problem. Seventy percent of Americans describe themselves as “not at all knowledgeable” about palliative care, and most health care professionals believe it is synonymous with end-of-life care.1 This perception is not far from current medical practice, because specialty palliative care — administered by clinicians with expertise in palliative medicine — is predominantly offered through hospice care or inpatient consultation only after life-prolonging treatment has failed. Limiting specialty palliative care to those enrolled in hospice or admitted to the hospital ignores the majority of patients facing a serious illness, such as advanced cancer, who have . . .

2013

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