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End-Of-Life Care

New Website Offers End-of-Life Education for Healthcare Professionals

SACRAMENTO―A comprehensive, web-based learning tool that features a series of interactive video vignettes to help healthcare professionals better understand end-of-life care and prepare them for difficult conversations with patients and families is now available online. ...More
January 23, 2012
Posted in News
Advance Directives Decrease Medicare End-of-Life Expenditures

CHICAGO—Medicare patients with advance directives specifying limits in treatment who lived in regions with higher levels of end-of-life spending were less likely to have an in-hospital death, averaged significantly lower end-of-life Medicare spending and had significantly ...More
October 10, 2011
Posted in News, Practice Management
End-of-Life Discussions Don't Cause Harm

BOULDER, Colo.—Discussing and documenting patients' preferences for care at the end of life does not cause them any harm, contrary to recent claims, according to a study published Sept. 28 in the Journal of Hospital Medicine. ...More
September 28, 2011
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma, Practice Management
Q&A With End-of-Life Care Book Author

On the heels of the paperback release of "No Good Deed: A Story of Medicine, Murder Accusations, and the Debate over How We Die," I asked the book's author Dr. Lewis Cohen a few questions to gain a little more insight into this topic. ...More
June 14, 2011
Posted in Blog, Practice Management
Groups Develop ESRD Hospice, Palliative Care Education

MIDLOTHIAN, Va.—The Kidney End-of-Life Coalition and the American Nephrology Nurses’ Association (ANNA) have developed an educational module for the coordination of hospice and palliative care in end-stage renal disease (ESRD). ...More
February 17, 2011
Posted in News, Practice Management
Mayo Clinic Review of Ethical Decision Making With End-of-Life Care

ROCHESTER, Minn.—In a review article published in the October issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Mayo Clinic physicians differentiate the ethical and legal permissibility of withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatments and accepted comfort measures, specifically ...More
October 11, 2010
Posted in News, Practice Management
Standardized Form Improves End of Life Care

WASHINGTON—A program in which individuals used a standardized form signed by a physician to communicate their end-of-life care preferences leads to significantly better adherence to treatment preferences than more traditional methods of communication, according to a new ...More
July 12, 2010
Posted in News, Practice Management
Advance Planning Improves End-of-Life Care, Reduces Stress

LONDON—Advance care planning improves end-of-life care and reduces stress, anxiety and depression in surviving relatives, according to new research published online March 24 in the British Medical Journal. ...More
March 24, 2010
Posted in News, Clinical & Pharma, Practice Management
Survival Benefit with High-Intensity End-of-Life Care

PITTSBURGH—Patients admitted to hospitals with higher-intensity end-of-life care live longer than those admitted to hospitals with low-intensity approaches, according to a University of Pittsburgh study in the February issue of the journal Medical Care. ...More
February 12, 2010
Posted in News, Business, Clinical & Pharma, Government & Regulation, Practice Management
End-of-Life Care Lacking for CKD Patients

Patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) often do not receive adequate end-of-life care and are unhappy with the medical decisions made as their conditions worsen, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society ...More
January 14, 2010
Posted in News, Business, Clinical & Pharma, Practice Management