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Palliative Care News

QCS 2018 Cancer Care Comparable for Medicaid vs Commercial Insurance Cancer patients enrolled in Medicaid received care that was comparable or even superior to that of patients covered by commercial insurance.
Medscape Medical News, October 8, 2018
Multimodal Therapy May Up Survival in Advanced Prostate Cancer But the notable survival advantage seen with primary treatment consisting of radical prostatectomy plus radiotherapy also came with a high cost to quality of life.
Medscape Medical News, October 3, 2018

QCS 2018 Risk for Opioid-Related Death Very Low in Cancer Patients
Medscape Medical News, October 3, 2018
Lay Patient Navigators a Boon to Latinos With Advanced Cancer
Medscape Medical News, September 24, 2018
Baby-Boomers Expect Kids to Care for Them When They're Sick
Reuters Health Information, September 21, 2018
Preventive Drug Prescribing Common in Lung Cancer Patients Near End of Life
Reuters Health Information, September 20, 2018

Palliative Care Perspective

When a Patient Turns Into a Friend Dr David Kerr discusses his personal experience with patients who become friends.
Medscape Oncology, September 7, 2018
'I Wonder if I Betrayed Him': When the Patient Is a Colleague David Kerr discusses the loss of a colleague and personal friend whom he treated, and how this experience differed--and did not differ--from his other patient care experiences.
Medscape Oncology, September 7, 2018

Palliative Care for Gender and Sexual Minorities
Medscape Nurses, August 24, 2018
Study: Surgeons Report Optimal Residual Disease Incorrectly in 40% of Cases
Medscape Oncology, August 21, 2018
Spirituality in Serious Illness
Medscape Nurses, July 17, 2018
Yes, There Is Low-Value Care in the Very Ill, Despite MIT Study
Medscape, July 13, 2018

Journals

The Management of Nausea at the End of Life
Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, September 24, 2018
Palliative Care in Intensive Care Units
BMC Anesthesiology, September 19, 2018
ICD Discussions: What We Say and What They Understand
Southern Medical Journal, September 5, 2018
NIV in Patients With DNI and Comfort-Measures-Only Orders
Critical Care Medicine, August 7, 2018
Using Aromatherapy in the Clinical Setting
American Nurse Today, July 27, 2018

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