01.18.2023
Clinical Alerts
01.18.2023
Machine Learning-Triggered Reminders Improve End-of-Life Care for Patients with Cancer
Electronic nudges delivered to health care clinicians based on a machine learning algorithm that predicts mortality risk quadrupled rates of conversations with patients about their...
01.18.2023
Social Work Staffing and Use of Palliative Care Among Recently Hospitalized Veterans
In this cohort study involving 43,200 veterans in the Department of Veterans Affairs health system, the addition of social workers to primary care teams was...
12.16.2022
Assessment Tools for Dyspnea and Respiratory Distress at the End of Life
Fast Facts installment #453 published by Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin explores best practices for assessing respiratory stress, including several scales used in the self-reporting...
12.16.2022
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in End-of-Life Care for Patients With Oesophageal Cancer
From 2003 to 2019, there was a decrease of deaths in hospitals, nursing homes, and outpatient medical facilities/emergency departments and an increase of deaths at...
12.16.2022
Exploring the Potential Use of Wearable Devices as a Prognostic Tool Among Patients in Hospice Care
Researchers in Taiwan investigated the potential of wearable smart devices to monitor patient symptoms remotely in order to prioritize the patient, assist in decision-making, and...
10.26.2022
Do Healthy People Engage With Advance Care Planning?
Since 2016, The Omega Course has educated local people in one UK town about death and dying in hopes of producing practical outcomes with positive...
10.26.2022
Palliative Sedation in the Home Setting
Major medical groups support the use of palliative sedation in patients who are imminently dying and experiencing suffering that is intolerable or unresponsive to other...
10.26.2022
Advanced Pain Management in Cancer
On this GeriPal podcast, one of the world’s top experts in pain and symptom management for patients with cancer, Janet Abrahm, highlights treatments including ketamine,...