October 23, 2018
Intensive care: balancing risk and benefit to facilitate informed decisions
https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k4135More efforts are needed to engage with the wider healthcare community and the public about what intensive care can—and can’t—achieve, say Jamie Gross and colleagues
October 23, 2018
The experience of caring for EOL patients in non-palliative settings
https://bmcpalliatcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12904-018-0372-7More patients are dying in non-palliative care settings than in palliative care settings. How health care providers care for adult patients at the end-of-life stage in […]
October 23, 2018
Triggered palliative care for late-stage dementia
https://www.jpsmjournal.com/article/S0885-3924(18)31001-7/fulltextContext Persons with late-stage dementia have limited access to palliative care. Objective To test dementia-specific specialty palliative care triggered by hospitalization.
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.15524To characterize the goals and approaches of clinicians with experience discussing long‐term prognostic information with older adults.