06.08.2021
Clinical Alerts
06.08.2021
Psychosis, Depression Tied to Neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s
Depression and psychosis are significantly associated with neuronal loss and gliosis – but not with Lewy body scores – in Parkinson’s disease, data from analyses...
06.08.2021
Caregiver Burden
The Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin (PCNOW) provides peer-reviewed, evidence-based summaries of key palliative care topics (“Fast Facts”). A recently released Fast Facts edition highlights...
05.10.2021
Use of Comfort Care Increasing After Stroke, May Reduce Costs
The administration of comfort care intervention (CCI) to patients with acute ischemic stroke has increased in the United States, regardless of the type of acute...
05.10.2021
Capturing Pandemic Lessons Learned for Local Health Departments and Long-Term Care Facilities
As with much of our pre-pandemic reality, the relationship between local health departments and long-term care facilities appears in retrospect to have been tranquil and...
05.10.2021
Life, Death, and a Hospital Strained by COVID: a Podcast with Brian Block, Sunita Puri and Denise Barchas
During the winter peak in coronavirus cases, hospitals in New York City and Los Angeles went way past their capacity, but did this strain on...
04.12.2021
Total Pain and Mood Disturbances with Long-Term Opioid Therapy
The Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin (PCNOW) provides peer-reviewed, evidence-based summaries of key palliative care topics (“Fast Facts”). Recently released are Fast Facts covering total...
04.12.2021
Expelled from Hospice
When patients with dementia do not decline as expected on hospice, they are too frequently discharged, an experience that Lauren Hunt and Krista Harrison refer...
04.12.2021
Home-Based Medical Care: High-Value Health Care During Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented strains on our healthcare system. Given capacity limitations during the initial crisis and continuing into another season of increasing...