For patients with advanced cancer, palliative care should start early and be an integral part of treatment, not just something added on near the end of life, according to a new practice guideline from ...

Palliative care workers are allowed to sedate some patients with intractable pain at the end of life–but only as a last-resort measure, according to a new ethical guideline approved by the American ...

The American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Ad Hoc Palliative Care Expert Panel has developed specific evidence-based recommendations for access to palliative care services for individuals with ...

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Palliative care and its definition have continued to evolve during the past 20 years. In 1990, the World Health Organization established one of the first widely used definitions: “the active, total ...

Not enough patients are able to access palliative care at the end of their lives because there aren't enough providers offering it to meet their needs. So, the National Coalition for Hospice and ...

While the palliative care field continues to grow, hospitals are urged to follow updated clinical practice guidelines from the National Consensus Project for Palliative Care (NCP) to improve ...

The latest edition of the National Consensus Project's (NCP's) Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care has just been released. The guidelines emphasize the importance of ...

The time to start palliative care is as soon as a patient's cancer becomes advanced, emphasize the authors of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Clinical Practice Guideline Update. The ...

During this Insights interview with Genevieve Kumapley, PharmD, BCOP, on the Use of Oral Oncolytics in Palliative Care, part of the Oncology Stakeholders Summit, Spring 2015 series, Dr Kumapley ...

The National Consensus Project for Palliative Care has updated its "Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care," according to an AHA News Now report. The guidelines, which were last ...