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Keys to Supportive Care in Pancreatic Cancer: Early Palliative Care, Improved Communication
www.cancernetwork.com - 3/13/13
Helping Lung Cancer Patients Survive Treatment-Related Cachexia
topics.searchmedica.com - 2/14/13
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Disparities in Health Care Quality Among Minority Women: Findings From the 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
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Healthcare Quality and Disparities in Women: Highlights From the 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
www.ahrq.gov - 9/26/12
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Keys to Supportive Care in Pancreatic Cancer: Early Palliative Care, Improved Communication
www.cancernetwork.com - 3/13/13
Optimal supportive care for patients with pancreatic cancer is essential. Putting these interventions into practice requires that oncologists and oncology teams incorporate innovations at both the individual and the system level.
Palliative Care Programs Still Face Obstacles in Mainstream Cancer Care
jnci.oxfordjournals.org - 3/1/13
kristine.crane at oup.com. By all accounts, the past several years has seen palliative care leap into the nation s health care headlines and perhaps its consciousness as never before. ... New England Journal of Medicine. showing that terminal lung cancer
A Call to Action Improving Value by Emphasizing Patient-Centered Care atthe End of Life Patient-Centered Care at the End of Life
archsurg.jamanetwork.com - 2/28/13
Medical care during life's final stages is often poorly coordinated and inattentive to patient preferences, typically owing to a failure to ascertain each individual's goals. End-of-life care also consumes substantial health care dollars. For example, 30% of Medicare resources are expended on the 5% of beneficiaries who die each year, and one-third of costs in life's last year is accounted for in life's last month. Research indicates that physicians and health care professio
JAMA Network | JAMA Surgery | A Call to ActionImproving Value by Emphasizing Patient-Centered Care at the End of LifePatient-Centered Care at the End of Life
archsurg.jamanetwork.com - 2/28/13
and coordinating the care recommended by different health care providers ( ie, primary care practitioners, oncologists, surgeons, and palliative care clinicians who are specialized in addressing supportive needs as death approaches). ... Supportive and
Helping Lung Cancer Patients Survive Treatment-Related Cachexia
topics.searchmedica.com - 2/14/13
By the time cancer patients undergoing treatment show clinical signs of cachexia, the loss of fat and skeletal muscle is already advanced. Chinese respiratory specialists have a proposed intervention, and a review says to look beyond oncology to improve care for this problem.
 
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Acupuncture in Palliative Cancer Care
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Physical Activity and Functioning in Palliative Cancer Patients
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Nurse Practitioner Hospice Program for Patients With Terminal Metastatic Cancer and Their Families or Caregivers
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Standard Palliative Care Versus Standard Palliative Care Plus Polychemotherapy in Metastasized Malignant Melanoma
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Randomized Controlled Trial of Group Psychotherapy Interventions for Cancer Patients
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