End-of-Life Issues

The burden of care decisions: Helping surrogates follow through with patients' wishes

October 19, 2011

Surrogacy can be an overwhelming responsibility for a patients' friend or family member. Patients should carefully consider who they want to serve as a surrogate and include that person.
 

New models estimate survival time in advanced cancer

Delicia Honen Yard September 09, 2011

A number of variables can be used to estimate whether a person with advanced cancer who is no longer being treated for the disease will live for days, weeks, or months.
 

ASCO/ACS Award recognizes the role of palliative care in the continuum of cancer care

August 01, 2011

The recipient of the 2011 American Society of Clinical Oncologists/ American Cancer Society award is a pioneer in palliative medicine.
 

Benefits and risks of parenteral nutrition in patients with cancer

Jessica Tilton, MS, RD, LD, CNSC August 01, 2011

Nutritional status can have a significant impact on patients with cancer, and PN may help some patients respond better to treatment.
 

Dignity therapy improves end-of-life experience

Delicia Honen Yard July 20, 2011

A form of psychotherapy that is intended to relieve distress for dying patients and their families showed great effectiveness in a recent study.
 

Introduce palliative care for pain at cancer diagnosis

Delicia Honen Yard July 08, 2011

Palliative care interventions should be introduced at diagnosis as a part of disease management rather than not until the end of life, suggests a review of cancer pain management.
 

Lung cancer prompts different uses of end-of-life care in the United States, Canada

Delicia Honen Yard May 26, 2011

At the end of life, US Medicare patients with lung cancer make much more use of chemotherapy than do their counterparts in Ontario, but Canadians are much more likely to be hospitalized.
 

Déjà vu: How I remember to listen

May 19, 2011

The patient's daughter had been through the discharge process before. But she struggled with accepting her recurrent feelings. The nurse did, too.
 

"FATE" survey assesses end of life in head and neck cancer

Delicia Honen Yard May 12, 2011

Palliative treatments, death outside of the hospital, and involvement by a palliative care team all improve the end-of-life experience for persons with head and neck cancer.
 

The Family Meeting: Meeting the family where they are

March 17, 2011

Sometimes, despite our best efforts, we cannot convince the patient's family that the time for hope is gone.
 

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