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Journal Article
Feb 4, 2013
To compare reports about care experiences of individuals who died within 1 year of survey with reports of those who did not.
Commentary
Oct 30, 2012
It's remarkable how often primary care doctors never get around to talking with their patients about an advance care plan before that fateful day arrives. So my colleagues and I end up having the conversation in an ER conference room or the patient's bedside at 2 o'clock in the morning, writes Art Kellermann.
Apr 1, 2012
There is a growing emphasis on promoting medical treatments that provide the most benefits relative to their costs.
Mar 1, 2012
Estimation of six-month prognosis is essential in hospice referral decisions, but accurate, evidence-based tools to assist in this task are lacking.
Apr 1, 2011
Cancer Quality-ASSIST indicators are useful for practical quality assessment of cancer end-of-life care in an academic medical center.
Evaluation of implementation of a standardized order set can identify areas for quality improvement and missed opportunities for use.
Communication is an ongoing challenge for clinicians working with people facing life-threatening illnesses and end of life. Family conferences offer patient-focused, family-oriented care that brings together patients, family members, and health care providers.
Mar 14, 2011
Longitudinal studies examining care for seriously ill patients are needed to understand patients' experience of illness, evaluate interventions, and improve quality of care.
Feb 1, 2011
High Medicare spending is not associated with better health outcomes at a regional level, but patients admitted to California hospitals from 1999 to 2008 had lower inpatient mortality in those hospitals that spent more on end of life care.
Jan 2, 2011
The authors estimated at pounds 1.8 billion the cost to the taxpayer of care for the 127,000 patients dying from cancer in 2006. The equivalent cost for the 30,000 people dying from organ failure was pounds 553 million. Resources of pounds 16 to pounds 171 million could be released for cancer.
Multimedia
Sep 13, 2010
In this September 2010 Congressional Briefing, Neil Wenger describes a yearlong study on improving end-of-life care that can help policymakers address payment systems and other issues pertaining to quality of care for critically ill patients.
Jan 1, 2010
This study of end-of-life care received by hospitalized adults identified deficiencies in planning and palliative care that can be targeted to improve the quality of care for patients dying in the hospital.
