10.11.2018
Clinical Alerts
10.11.2018
National Consensus Project Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care Guidelines, 4th Edition
The 4th edition of the National Consensus Project Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care (NCP) Guidelines is an update to the previous 2013 edition...
09.17.2018
Noninvasive Ventilation in Patients with Do-Not-Intubate and Comfort-Measures-Only Orders
Noninvasive ventilation (NIV), including continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and bilevel positive airway pressure (BiPAP), has been used in a number of conditions to manage...
09.17.2018
Hospice Underutilized for Heart Failure Patients
Palliative care and hospice services are available at diagnosis of serious illness and for persons with a terminal prognosis of 6 months respectively, however, many...
09.17.2018
Does Colace (Docusate) Work for Constipation? No!
Dr. Robert Arnold, a palliative care physician at the University of Pittsburgh critiqued a study reported in the 2013 Journal of Pain and Symptom Management...
08.09.2018
New Fast Facts Topic Available
The Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin (PCNOW) provides peer-reviewed, evidence-based summaries of key palliative care topics (“Fast Facts”). PCNOW recently released Fast Fact #361, Parkinson’s...
08.09.2018
Tailored Lighting Improves Alzheimer’s Patients Sleep, Mood
Persons with Alzheimer’s disease characteristically experience sleep disturbances that contribute to increased agitation and altered mood. In a crossover study of tailored lighting interventions in...
08.09.2018
End-of-Life Learning from the Philosophy of Ninjas
Pallimed: A Hospice & Palliative Medicine Blog is an educational blog that reviews palliative care topics including media coverage of hospice and palliative care issues....
07.06.2018