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01-07-2019 | Care | Concise Research Reports
Palliative Care Needs in Oncology, Cardiology, and Neurology Clinic Patients in the USA
Authors:
Nancy Dudley, PhD, MSN, Christine S. Ritchie, MD, MSPH, Irena Stijacic-Cenzer, MA, Sei J. Lee, MD
Published in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Issue 7/2019
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Excerpt
The Institute of Medicine’s 2014 report
Dying in America calls for all clinicians to provide symptom-oriented palliative care to patients, especially for the growing population of older adults with advanced illness.
1 Oncology, cardiology, and neurology professional societies all recommend their members complement usual disease-oriented care with symptom-oriented palliative care services for patients with advanced illness.
2‐4 However, the proportion of oncology, cardiology, and neurology patients who have advanced illness and are most likely to benefit from symptom-oriented palliative care is unclear. …