11.09.2018
Clinical Alerts
11.09.2018
Now Available NCP 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...
10.11.2018
Preventive Drug Prescribing Common in Lung Cancer Patients Near End of Life
Patients with advanced disease at the end-of-life are often continued on medications that do not provide comfort but rather prevent long-term issues. Continuing unnecessary medications...
10.11.2018
The Management of Nausea at the End of Life
Nausea is a common symptom among seriously ill patients and may exacerbate the symptoms of underlying disease and decrease quality of life. Causes of nausea...
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...