October 31, 2018

Incorrect survival predication ups aggressive end-of-life care

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/903800
SAN ANTONIO — An inability to accurately predict how long patients with metastatic lung cancer have left to live increases the likelihood of aggressive, poor-quality end-of-life […]
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October 31, 2018

How do we serve the very sick, very frail and very old? (podcast)

https://www.geripal.org/2018/10/how-do-we-serve-very-sick-very-frail.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+Geripal+(GeriPal)
In this week’s GeriPal podcast we talk with Guy Micco, MD, a longtime bioethicists, internist, hospice physician, teacher in the UC Berkeley and UCSF Joint Medical Program, […]
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October 31, 2018

Planting the seed: perceived benefits of and strategies for discussing long-term prognosis with older adults

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jgs.15524
To characterize the goals and approaches of clinicians with experience discussing long‐term prognostic information with older adults.
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October 23, 2018

Triggered palliative care for late-stage dementia

https://www.jpsmjournal.com/article/S0885-3924(18)31001-7/fulltext
Context Persons with late-stage dementia have limited access to palliative care. Objective To test dementia-specific specialty palliative care triggered by hospitalization.
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