Viewpoints

The Essence of Evidence-Based Practice We may be missing the true meaning of evidence-based practice.
Experts And Viewpoints, September 2018
How 'Bucket Lists' Can Help in Serious Illness A bucket list may help clinicians understand the patient's goals and approach to treatment decisions.
Experts And Viewpoints, September 2018
Medication Reconciliation: Useful Tool or Box to Check? Medication reconciliation has become a rote process but has the potential to improve safety and quality of care.
Experts And Viewpoints, August 2018
Palliative Care for Gender and Sexual Minorities When faced with serious illness or the end of life, gender and sexual minority patients have unique healthcare needs.
Experts And Viewpoints, August 2018
Live Longer or Better? The cancer clinical trial paradigm will be improved with the incorporation of palliative care.
Experts And Viewpoints, July 2018
Prioritizing Patients Over Paperwork A worthy goal, but is it really achievable? CMS thinks so.
Experts And Viewpoints, June 2018
When a Loved One Is in the ICU An ICU admission can induce physical and psychological symptoms in patient caregivers.
Experts And Viewpoints, May 2018
Our 'Suboxone Patients' Tom Bartol argues that we shouldn't label patients with the name of their disease or treatment.
Experts And Viewpoints, May 2018
Hospice Aides: The Eyes and Ears of End-of-Life Care Unlicensed personnel spend the most time with patients and families during hospice care, yet they don't always feel that they have a voice.
Experts And Viewpoints, May 2018
Deactivating ICDs Near End of Life Patients with end-stage heart failure may not be aware that their ICDs can be deactivated as they near the end of life.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 2018
This Medical Bill Can't Be Right, Can It? With high-deductible insurance, patients are learning and questioning the true costs of care.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 2018
Frailty in the Older Adult: A Surgical Deterrent? Surgeons are starting to take frailty seriously, in an effort to thwart surgical complications the elderly.
Experts And Viewpoints, March 2018
Statins in the Elderly: Evidence-Based or Not? What does the evidence show, and is it enough to guide decisions about statins for older adults?
Experts And Viewpoints, March 2018
How to Pronounce a Patient's Death Compassionately Which physician behaviors demonstrate compassion at this difficult moment?
Experts And Viewpoints, March 2018
How Should We Measure Quality Healthcare? Tom Bartol argues that standardized outcomes instruments aren't going to improve care.
Experts And Viewpoints, February 2018
What Can Chaplains Do in Outpatient Palliative Care? Can a brief, chaplain-delivered intervention address spiritual concerns in patients with advanced cancer?
Experts And Viewpoints, January 2018
How Clinicians Respond to Anger in the Clinical Setting A unique training program helps oncology and other clinicians deal with angry patients yet remain calm to provide care to the next patient.
Experts And Viewpoints, December 2017
Precepting NP Students -- Who Needs It? We All Do Tom Bartol finds that he learns as much from student NPs as they learn from him.
Experts And Viewpoints, December 2017
Nursing Home Residents: No Right to Sue for Unsafe Care Should patients and their families sign away their right to sue upon admission to a nursing home? The current administration thinks so.
Experts And Viewpoints, November 2017
Enhancing the Power of Self-healing Whether you call it 'self-healing' or the 'placebo effect,' we can promote it by enhancing our relationships with our patients.
Experts And Viewpoints, November 2017

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