Palliative care refers to specialized medical care for ill people with illness that do not have a clear cure. A strong emphasis is placed on providing symptom and stress relief for both the patient ...

The term “palliative care” has a negative connotation and may act as a barrier to early patient referrals. Rebranding has thus been proposed as a strategy to reduce the negative perceptions associated ...

Determine palliative and end-of-life care practices, barriers and beliefs among US neonatologists, and relationships between practice characteristics and palliative care delivery. The survey consisted ...

For people living with serious and terminal illnesses, there are a number of care options available. However, there is a great deal of misunderstanding and misconceptions about what certain types of ...

Many professionals in oncology associate palliative care with end-of-life care. While it is true that one type of palliative care, hospice, is for patients in the last months of life, palliative care ...

Palliative care, by contrast, is a relatively new medical specialty whose importance has grown immensely in the twenty-first century. 2 The WHO defines palliative care as “an approach that improves ...

Approximately 30–40 million undocumented immigrants worldwide suffer restricted health care. A scoping review was conducted to determine what is known about this population’s palliative end-of-life ...

Chemotherapy and Targeted Therapy for Women With Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2–Negative (or unknown) Advanced Breast Cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice ...