Palliative and hospice care services produce well-known benefits for patients living with serious illness and for their families. Benefits include improved quality of life and reduced symptom burden, spiritual […]
April 13, 2020
Current issues with implementing a palliative approach in long-term care: Where do we go from here?
In this issue of Palliative Medicine, Collingridge Moore et al. identified, based on a scoping review, four key implementation strategies, including the following: (1) facilitation (internally […]
April 6, 2020
Managing uncertainty and references to time in prognostic conversations with family members at the end of life: A conversation analytic study
When patients are likely to die in the coming hours or days, families often want prognostic information. Prognostic uncertainty and a lack of end-of-life communication training […]