Among seriously ill patients who preferred comfort care, those with cancer were nearly twice as likely as those with other diseases to report receiving life-extending care instead, according to a new ...
Hospice care can be a valuable resource for patients with late-stage cancer who want to improve the quality of the rest of their life. Hospice — which is sometimes referred to as end-of-life care — ...
Quality communication about end-of-life care ensures that medical treatments or interventions align with patients’ values and ...
As noted in the first article in this series, traditional value-based (VBC) care models are largely focused on economic incentives to healthcare providers and facilities. Many VBC organizations lack ...
Goals of care (GoC) designations are an important part of advanced care planning (ACP) for patients with incurable cancers. Studies of outpatient oncology records show that most patients do not have ...
What Asian-Pacific Countries Could Build Upon the United States' Oncology Care Model? To help inform real-world practice, these authors performed a retrospective study of adults with advanced solid ...
The Joint Commission has announced its 2010 National Patient Safety Goals for its Ambulatory Care Accreditation Program. Although no new goals have been developed for 2010, accredited organizations ...
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