Palliative Care
Cohort Study: Early Palliative Care Linked to Increased Survival and Reduced Risk of Death in an Acute Care Setting Among Patients with Advanced Lung Cancer
20 Sep, 2019 | 08:21h | UTCAssociation of Early Palliative Care Use With Survival and Place of Death Among Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer Receiving Care in the Veterans Health Administration – JAMA Oncology (free for a limited period)
Editorial: Prolonged Survival With Palliative Care—It Is Possible, but Is It Necessary? (free)
Commentaries: Early Palliative Care Associated with Increased Survival in Lung Cancer Patients – MedicalResearch.com (free) AND Early palliative care for advanced lung cancer increases survival – Veterans Affairs Research Communications (free)
Related Systematic Review: Early palliative care for adults with advanced cancer – Cochrane Library (free summary and original article)
Related Guidelines: Integration of Palliative Care Into Standard Oncology Care: American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline Update (free) AND Consensus document of the Italian Association of Medical Oncology and the Italian Society of Palliative Care on early palliative care – Tumori Journal (free)
Related Video: Early Palliative Care: a video for health and care professionals – University of Edinburgh (free)
Related Randomized Trial: Early Palliative Care for Patients with Metastatic Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer- New England Journal of Medicine (free)
Poetry and Medicine: Dysthanasia
18 Sep, 2019 | 02:28h | UTCDysthanasia – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Review: Improving the Quality of Life of People with Advanced Respiratory Disease and Severe Breathlessness
18 Sep, 2019 | 02:29h | UTCRelated Guideline: Danish respiratory society position paper: palliative care in patients with chronic progressive non-malignant lung diseases – European Clinical Respiratory Journal (free)
Cohort Study: How Many Older Adults Receive Drugs of Questionable Clinical Benefit Near the End of Life?
28 Aug, 2019 | 02:26h | UTCRelated Studies: Use of Medications of Questionable Benefit at the End of Life (link to abstract and commentaries) AND Preventive Drugs in the Last Year of Life of Older Adults with Cancer: Is There Room for Deprescribing? (link to abstract and commentary)
Review: Palliative Inotrope Therapy
27 Aug, 2019 | 00:16h | UTCPalliative Inotrope Therapy: A Narrative Review – JAMA Cardiology (free for a limited period)
Position Statement: Palliative Care for People Living with Heart Failure
8 Aug, 2019 | 08:28h | UTCRelated Reviews: Palliative Care for Patients With Heart Failure – American College of Cardiology (free) AND Approach to advanced heart failure at the end of life – Canadian Family Physician (free) AND Palliative Care in Heart Failure: Rationale, Evidence, and Future Priorities – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (free) AND How Medicine Has Changed the End of Life for Patients With Cardiovascular Disease – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (free) AND Dilemmas in end-stage heart failure – Journal of Geriatric Cardiology (free) AND It’s Time to Talk: Challenges in Providing Integrated Palliative Care in Advanced Congestive Heart Failure. A Narrative Review – Cardiology Reviews (free) AND Palliative Care Interventions for Patients with Heart Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (free)
Related Randomized Trial: Palliative Care in Heart Failure (link to abstract and commentaries)
Systematic Review: Palliative Care for People with Dementia Living at Home
25 Jul, 2019 | 01:32h | UTC
Cohort Study: Association of Initiation of Maintenance Dialysis with Functional Status and Caregiver Burden
4 Jul, 2019 | 10:40h | UTCCommentaries: Functional Decline Seen in Many Older Adults Initiating Dialysis – Renal & Urology News (free) AND Many Older Patients Initiating Dialysis Experience Functional Decline – American Society of Nephrology (free) AND Starting Dialysis Worse Than ‘Being Hit by a Silent Freight Train’ – Medscape (free registration required)
Perspective: Challenging the Resistance to Palliative Care
28 Jun, 2019 | 07:42h | UTCSurvey Snapshot: Challenging the Resistance to “Palliative” – NEJM Catalyst (free)
New Guidelines Aim to Expand Palliative Care Beyond Specialists
27 Jun, 2019 | 10:37h | UTCNew Guidelines Aim to Expand Palliative Care Beyond Specialists – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Audio Summary: New Guidelines Aim to Expand Palliative Care Beyond Specialists (free)
Original Guideline: Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care (free article and commentaries)
Related: Building a Better Death, One Conversation at a Time – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Care Redesign Survey: The Power of Palliative Care
13 Jun, 2019 | 07:37h | UTCCare Redesign Survey: The Power of Palliative Care – NEJM Catalyst (free)
Never Say ‘Die’: Why So Many Doctors Won’t Break Bad News
13 Jun, 2019 | 07:35h | UTCNever Say ‘Die’: Why So Many Doctors Won’t Break Bad News – Kaiser Health News (free)
Review: Implementing Advance Care Planning with Community-Dwelling Frail Elders Requires a System-wide Approach
29 May, 2019 | 10:44h | UTC
Strategies to Relieve Dyspnea in Patients with Advanced Chronic Respiratory Diseases
24 May, 2019 | 05:16h | UTC
The Escalating Global Burden of Serious Health-related Suffering: Projections to 2060 by World Regions, Age Groups, and Health Conditions
24 May, 2019 | 05:17h | UTCInvited Commentary: Global palliative care: from need to action – The Lancet Global Health (free)
“Immediate global action to integrate palliative care into health systems is an ethical and economic imperative.”
Perspective: Eight Things We Would Never do Regarding End-of-life Care in the ICU
22 May, 2019 | 05:53h | UTCEight things we would never do regarding end-of-life care in the ICU – Intensive Care Medicine (free)
Related: Limitation of Life-Sustaining Care in the Critically Ill: A Systematic Review of the Literature – Journal of Hospital Medicine (free PDF) AND Dying with Dignity in the Intensive Care Unit – New England Journal of Medicine (free) AND Palliative care in intensive care units: why, where, what, who, when, how – BMC Anesthesiology (free) AND Ten key points about ICU palliative care – Intensive Care Medicine (free) AND Guidelines for the withdrawal of life-sustaining measures – Intensive Care Medicine (free) AND End-of-life in the ICU: moving from ‘withdrawal of care’ to a palliative care, patient-centred approach – British Journal of Anaesthesia (free) AND New concepts in palliative care in the intensive care unit – Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva (free) AND The Changing Role of Palliative Care in the ICU – Critical Care Medicine (free)
Source: Critical Care Reviews Newsletter
Optimizing Cancer Pain Management in Resource-limited Settings
19 May, 2019 | 21:55h | UTCOptimizing cancer pain management in resource-limited settings – Supportive Care in Cancer (free)
Characteristics and Trends Among Patients With Cardiovascular Disease Referred to Palliative Care
4 May, 2019 | 13:56h | UTCInvited Commentary: Improving Primary and Specialist Palliative Care in Cardiovascular Disease (free)
Related Reviews: Palliative Care for Patients With Heart Failure – American College of Cardiology (free) AND Approach to advanced heart failure at the end of life – Canadian Family Physician (free) AND Palliative Care in Heart Failure: Rationale, Evidence, and Future Priorities – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (free) AND How Medicine Has Changed the End of Life for Patients With Cardiovascular Disease – Journal of the American College of Cardiology (free) AND Dilemmas in end-stage heart failure – Journal of Geriatric Cardiology (free) AND It’s Time to Talk: Challenges in Providing Integrated Palliative Care in Advanced Congestive Heart Failure. A Narrative Review – Cardiology Reviews (free) AND Palliative Care Interventions for Patients with Heart Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (free)
Related Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)
JUST OUT! Our paper in @JAMANetworkOpen w/ the most comprehensive look at #heartdisease patients referred to #PalliativeCare. Sobering: 1/3rd of ❤️patients are *bedbound* at time of referral and over time FEWER % referred by cardiology. 1/n https://t.co/tyBDXpQynQ
— Haider Warraich (@haiderwarraich) May 3, 2019
Opinion: How to Make Doctors Think About Death
1 May, 2019 | 07:07h | UTCOpinion: How to Make Doctors Think About Death – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
“End-of-life treatment guidelines would help families, physicians and nurses confront the inevitable with care and compassion.”
A Good Life And A Good Death: What Is Palliative Care?
26 Apr, 2019 | 01:57h | UTCA Good Life And A Good Death: What Is Palliative Care? – NPR (free)
Recommendations for the Care of Patients Receiving Conservative Kidney Management
22 Apr, 2019 | 22:28h | UTCRecommendations for the Care of Patients Receiving Conservative Kidney Management – Clinical Journal of American Society of Nephrology (free for a limited period)
Pharmacologic Management of Malignant Bowel Obstruction: When Surgery Is Not an Option
22 Apr, 2019 | 02:14h | UTC
Study: Aggressive Treatment Common in Patients with Imminently Fatal de Novo Metastatic Cancer
19 Apr, 2019 | 08:26h | UTCCommentaries: Some patients with imminently fatal cancer still receive treatment – eCancer News (free) AND With Weeks to Live, Many Cancer Patients Try Useless Treatments – HealthDay (free)
Midazolam: Safety of Use in Palliative Care
15 Apr, 2019 | 02:13h | UTC
Preventive Drugs in the Last Year of Life of Older Adults with Cancer: Is There Room for Deprescribing?
1 Apr, 2019 | 02:02h | UTCCommentary: Are preventive drugs overused at the end of life in older adults with cancer? – Wiley (free)