Ethics in palliative care is a matter of "practical reasoning" about individual patients. Although there are many approaches proposed by ethicists for the analysis and resolution of difficult ...

Management of the primary site in stage IV non-small cell lung cancer: SEER analysis. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2016 Palliative and Supportive Care in Oncology Symposium. This abstract ...

The guideline uses the term caregiver or family caregiver to refer to and include people, with or without legal or biological connections to the person with cancer, eg, “chosen family,” and to ...

Palliative care physicians are trained to prevent and ease suffering for people who have serious illnesses or who need end-of-life care. Most health care providers focus on diagnosing and treating ...

Palliative care, sometimes called supportive care, can improve quality of life for people with chronic or other serious illnesses. People with serious, life threatening illnesses may feel as though ...

133/141 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10011 MPS Art Therapy faculty member Emery Hurst Mikel explores how art therapy can be used within the worlds of hospice and palliative care to help both the ...

This study compares a robust, culturally-based Palliative Care Tele-consult program to usual hospital care to determine whether a culturally-based Palliative Care Tele-consult program leads to lower ...

Jonathan Kwan is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University Abu Dhabi and was previously the Markkula Center’s Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow in Immigration Ethics. Views ...

Only 14% of people who need palliative care actually receive it. You may receive palliative care alongside treatments designed to cure your illness. It is possible to be eligible for palliative care ...