Researchers analyzed 33,744 fee-for-service Medicare decedents with distant-stage breast, prostate, pancreatic, or lung ...

3 Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore Despite advances in palliative care, some patients still suffer significantly at the end of ...

As the number of older people increases across the world, and more people approach the end of their lives with chronic and complex conditions, the need for robust and relevant research in palliative ...

End-of-life care (ELC), or comfort care, describes a robust array of healthcare practices for patients who have stopped ...

Hospice Care Ratings examined data from KFF and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization to highlight changes in ...

Many older adults with advanced cancer receive potentially aggressive treatment but not a lot of supportive care, according ...

Many Medicare patients with advanced cancer receive potentially aggressive treatment at the expense of supportive care, according to a study that analyzed Medicare records.

ACS rsearchers revealed that close to half of patients with advanced cancer received potentially aggressive care at the end-of-life at the expense of supportive care. “Even though clinicians and ...

Hameroff believes Carhart-Harris’s study could also point to why it could be the same reason “end-of-life” brain activity spikes after a patient dies. “I think consciousness is actually ...

The study he was referring to, conducted in 2009 by scientists from George Washington University, set out to see the level of consciousness at the end of life in ... to withdraw care due to ...

The resulting paper, "Foundational guidelines for enhancing neurotechnology research and development through end-user involvement," has emerged from shared interest in ensuring that ...