Month: September 2017

The Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin (PCNOW) is an organization dedicated to increasing the availability of quality palliative care services for people facing serious illness and resources for health care professionals.  PCNOW provides peer-reviewed, evidence-based summaries of key palliative care [...] Continue Reading

The NCCN Guidelines for Palliative Care provide interdisciplinary recommendations on palliative care for patients with cancer. These NCCN Guidelines Insights summarize and provide context for the updated guidelines recommendations regarding hospice and end-of-life (EOL) care. Updates for 2017 include revisions [...] Continue Reading

Patients with advanced kidney disease (CKD, ESRD) use less palliative care and hospice services and more intensive and aggressive medical care compared to those with other advanced illnesses. Early palliative care interventions in oncology have demonstrated improvements in communication, informed [...] Continue Reading