Palliative Care
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)
Perspective: CPR for all—a case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?
24 Mar, 2019 | 20:53h | UTCJames Davies: CPR for all—a case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Perspective: Listening to Older Patients Who Want to Stop Dialysis
12 Mar, 2019 | 12:54h | UTCListening to Older Patients Who Want To Stop Dialysis – Kaiser Health News (free)
Related: Dialysis Is a Way of Life for Many Older Patients. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be (free) AND Prioritizing Patient and Caregiver Values in the Delivery of High-Quality Medical Management Without Dialysis (free) AND Care Practices for Patients with Advanced Kidney Disease Who Forgo Maintenance Dialysis (free)
Advance Care Planning in Dementia: Recommendations for Healthcare Professionals
11 Mar, 2019 | 11:47h | UTCRelated Guideline: Guideline: Advance Care Planning in Dementia (free)
See also: New Document for Patients: Advanced Health Directive for Dementia (free document and commentaries) AND Alzheimer’s? Your Paperwork May Not Be in Order – The New York Times (free)