Importance Palliative care improves health outcomes, but studies of the differences in the
delivery of palliative care to patients with different types of serious illness are lacking …

Objective To measure the associations between newly initiated palliative care in the last six
months of life, healthcare use, and location of death in adults dying from non-cancer illness …

Objectives To examine access to palliative care between different disease trajectories and
compare to other geographic areas. Design A retrospective population-based decedent …

Background: To enable coordinated palliative care delivery, all clinicians should have basic
palliative care skill sets ('generalist palliative care'). Specialists should have skills for …

PURPOSE Evidence suggests that adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer
(defined as age 15-39 years) receive high-intensity (HI) medical care at the end-of-life …

Background Palliative care is associated with improved symptom control and quality of life in
people with heart failure. There is conflicting evidence as to whether it is associated with a …

Background We examined the delivery of physician palliative care (PC) services and its
association with aggressive end-of-life care (EOLC) in patients with gastrointestinal (GI) …

Importance Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer experience substantial
symptom burden. Specialty palliative care (SPC) is recommended but often not involved or …

Context Many adolescents and young adults (AYAs; 15–39 years) with cancer receive high
intensity (HI) care at the end of life (EOL). Palliative care (PC) involvement in this population …

Objective: Primary care providers play an important role in providing early palliative care,
however they often lack practical supports to operationalize this approach in practice …