Hospice Matters for Physicians
End-of-life care news & clinical findings for physicians
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 10 Issue 4)
- Geography, Not Patient Preference, Determines Intensity of End-of-Life Care
- Early Pain-Specific Advance Care Planning and Directives Urged for Dementia Patients
- Clinical Trial Patients: An Overlooked Population for Palliative Care Delivery
- Education Video Helps Clinicians Understand Patients’ Faith-Based Views of End-of-Life Care
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 10 Issue 3)
- Women Far Likelier Than Men to Prefer Palliative Care When Facing Advanced Cancer
- Surgeons Favor Palliative/End-of-Life Care, but Identify Multiple Critical Barriers to Ensuring Its Provision
- Major Delays in Hospice Referrals of Patients Receiving Hemodialysis Demonstrate Need for Integrated Palliative Care
- ‘The Pause’ Honors a Life Lost and the Care Team’s Efforts at the Bedside
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 10 Issue 2)
- High Hospitalization Rate Near Death, Low Use of Hospice Among Younger Cancer Patients Raise Concerns
- National Guidelines Updated to Emphasize Cancer Patients’ Needs for Palliative Care and Transition to Hospice
- Physicians Urged to Take Advantage of Available Instructional Tools for Breaking Bad News
- Clinicians Encouraged to Use Patients’ Bucket Lists to Enhance Goals-of-Care Discussions
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 10 Issue 1)
- Heart Disease Now Most Common Non-Cancer Hospice Admitting Diagnosis
- Trends Track Change in End-of-Life Care: Increasing Complexity of Care Needs, Unnecessary Aggressive Care, Short Hospice Enrollment
- Rehospitalization, Longer Stays Linked to Unmet Needs for Symptom Control in Patients with Advanced Cancer
- Advance Directive Completion Remains Unacceptably Low
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 9 Issue 4)
- End-of-Life Experiences Vary Widely in Advanced Lung Cancer Patients
- Hospitalists Play Increasingly Prominent Role in Referring Seriously Ill Patients to Hospice and Conducting Goals-of-Care Discussions
- Neurologists Urged to Address Shared Decision-Making Issues in Severe Stroke Cases
- Successful Advance Care Planning Campaign Opens with Teaser, ‘WGYLM?’
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 9 Issue 3)
- Transitions in Care Settings Common, Often Multiple, Near the End of Life
- Emergency Medicine Physicians Offered Quick Tools for Assessing Patients’ Palliative and Hospice Care Needs
- Automatic Palliative Care Consultation Yields Substantial Improvements in Quality End-of-Life Care for Advanced Cancer Patients
- Many Late Hospice Referrals, Wide Variation Found among Practices of Oncology Divisions and Physicians
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 9 Issue 2)
- Frank Communication with Families Linked to Fewer End-of-Life Hospitalizations from Nursing Homes
- Physicians Offered Guide to Timely Discussions of Care Goals for Patients with ESRD and other Serious Illnesses
- Step-Wise Guide to Serious Illness Conversation
- Hospice Provides ‘Excellent’ End-of-Life Care for Loved ones, Majority of Families Report
- Physicians Urged to Help Patients with Correct Completion of POLST Forms to Avoid ‘Decisions by Default’
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 9 Issue 1)
- Most Heart Failure Patients Want to Discuss Prognosis and End-of-Life Care Plans, Study Finds
- Two-Fold Rise in Ventilator Use among Advanced Dementia Patients Linked to ICU Bed Increase
- Half of Patients with Advanced Cancer Believe Their Disease is Curable, International Study Finds
- Pallipedia: Online Hospice/Palliative Care Dictionary for Clinicians
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 8 Issue 4)
- Factors Identified That Influence Patients’ Desire for End-of-Life Discussions with Physicians
- Video Decision Aid May Help Heart Failure Patients Make Well-Informed Choices
- Surrogates’ Prognostic Expectations Differ from Those of Physicians More Than Half the Time
- Hospice Use in Nursing Homes Results in Medicare Savings
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 8 Issue 3)
- Burden of Activity-Restricting Symptoms Decreases Markedly Following Hospice Admission
- Physicians Receive Less Intensive End-of-Life Care than the General Population
- Dying at Home May Improve Survival in Patients Receiving Palliative/Hospice Care
- Emergency Use and Admissions Drop Following Hospice Enrollment, But Hospice Stays are Short
- Physicians Favor Medicare Reimbursement for ACP Discussions
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 8 Issue 2)
- Hospice Care Reduces Hospital Days across Diagnoses, National Study Finds
- Hematologists Often Initiate End-of-Life Conversations with Patients ‘Too Late’
- Palliative Care Initiated in Emergency Department Found to Improve Quality of Life
- Physician Body Language Varies by Race of Dying Patient
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 8 Issue 1)
- Prognostic Disclosure Can Benefit, Not Harm, Patients with Terminal Illness
- Late-Stage Lung Cancer Patients Need to Avoid Overtreatment, Find ‘Delicate Balance’ in Radiation Therapy Near End of Life
- Caregivers Express High Satisfaction with Hospice Regardless of Patient Diagnosis
- Poll: 89% of Americans Favor End-of-Life Discussions with Physicians
- Short Hospice Stay, Hospital Death Yield Low Caregiver Ratings for Quality of Care
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 7 Issue 4)
- Comorbidities Found More Predictive of Hospice Eligibility than Functional Status
- Low Rate of Advance Directive Documentation among Heart Failure Patients Prompts “Call to Action” from Researchers
- Advance Care Planning in Heart Failure: A Clinical Approach
- Most Physicians Take Responsibility for Relieving Spiritual Suffering near the End of Life, National Study Finds
- Simple End-of-Life Care Planning Tool Helps Patients Initiate the Conversation
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 7 Issue 3)
- Earlier Hospice Referrals among Recommendations to Improve End-of-Life Care
- Hospital Clinicians Identify Patient and Family Factors as Chief Barriers to Goals of Care Discussions
- Clinician Resources: Having ‘The Conversation’ Can Help Improve Quality of Life for Dying Patients
- Earlier Support Reduces Risk for Depression among Caregiver
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 7 Issue 2)
- End-of_Life Care Planning Does Not Take Away Hope
- Hospice Use Remains High as Median Length of Service Continues to Decline
- Both Regional and Patient Factors Influence Receipt of Intensive Procedures at Life’s End
- Few Hospitalized Heart Failure Patients Receive Palliative Care
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 7 Issue 1)
- Age and Hospital Length of Stay Found to Predict One-Year Mortality in COPD Patients
- Decision Aids for Advance Care Planning: Potentially Powerful Tools in Need of Validation and Expansion
- Feeding Tubes Should Be Withheld or Withdrawn in Advanced Dementia Patients, Professional Society Advises
- Begin Patient Encounters with, ‘Hello, My Name Is,’ Urges Terminally Ill Physician
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 6 Issue 4)
- Stopping Statin Use in Terminally Ill Patients Found Beneficial
- Neurologists Offered Practical Introduction to Palliative Care
- Most Physicians Would Enroll in Hospice if Terminally Ill, But Often Delay Discussing Hospice with Patients
- AMEN: Clinicians Offered Conversational Tool When Patients Are Hoping for a Miracle
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 6 Issue 3)
- Patients with Hematologic Malignancies Enter Hospice ‘Late or Never,’ Study Finds
- Stroke Patients: First Guidelines Issued for Palliative and End-of-Life Care
- Practical End-of-Life Communication Approaches
- More Older Americans Complete Advance Directives, Yet Hospitalization Rates Continue to Rise
- Addressing Timely Hospice Entry for ‘Unbefriended’ Patients
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 6 Issue 2)
- The ‘Elephant in the Room’: Physicians Urged to Introduce Hospice and Palliative Care
- Integrating Geriatrics and Palliative Care
- Many Patients and Surrogates Are Unprepared for Cardiac Device Deactivation
- Some Proxies Misunderstand Do-Not-Hospitalize Orders for Dementia Patients
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 6 Issue 1)
- Spiritual Support from Medical Teams May Result in Less Aggressive End-of-Life Care
- Strategies Suggested for Reducing Racial Disparities in End-of-Life Care
- Care Delivered to Advanced Dementia Nursing Home Patients Varies by Medical Plan Type
- It’s Time to Revive the Medical Culture of Care and Caring, Expert Urges
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 5 Issue 4)
- Community-Dwelling Older Patients Have High Symptom Burden in Last Years of Life
- Professional Medical Organization offers Recommendations for Decision-Making in Palliative Care
- Hospital Physicians Offered ‘Structured Guidance’ for End-of-Life Care Planning Discussions
- Advanced Lung Cancer Patients Hold Inaccurate Beliefs about Benefits of Radiation Therapy
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 5 Issue 3)
- The Concept of a Good Death Includes Relief of Suffering, Comfort Care, and Family Support
- Emergency Physicians Have ‘Window of Opportunity’ for Timely Hospice Referral
- Elements of Early, Integrated Palliative Care Encounters Identified
- Completion of Advance Directives Urged as Routine Part of Patient Care
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 5 Issue 2)
- Discharging patients to home hospice reduces risk of hospital readmission
- Patients and clinicians consider spiritual care important at the End of Life
- Hospitalization of advanced cancer patients must not be “missed opportunity” for addressing end-of-life needs
- COPD patients: clinicians offered literature-based approach to discussing end-of-life care
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 5 Issue 1)
- Patients with heart failure need earlier discussion of hospice care
- Patient treatment preferences have little influence on receipt of chemotherapy
- Elderly patients found to use Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility benefit rather than hospice at end of life
- Racial disparities in hospice use persist among patients with cancer
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 4 Issue 4)
- Family Members Yearn for Better Communication and Earlier Hospice Care
- Older Adults Not Enrolled in Hospice Have High Rates of Emergency Department Use in the Last Month of Life
- Study Identifies Factors Linked to Better Quality of Life at End of Life
- Early Integration of Palliative Care into Standard Oncology Care Improves Treatment at the End of Life
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 4 Issue 3)
- Quality Measures for Palliative and End-of-Life Care Endorsed
- COPD Patients who have End-of-Life Discussions More Likely to Give High Ratings for Quality of Care
- Aggressive Care at End of Life is Common Among Cancer Patients, But Varies both Across and within Types of Hospitals
- Relationships between Caregivers and Hospice Patients found to Vary Among Racial/Ethnic Groups
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 4 Issue 2)
- Hospice Care Report: Median and Average Lengths of Service Continue to Drop
- Improved Access to Hospice for Patients with Advanced Dementia Identified as Top Priority
- Surgical Intervention Common among Medicare Patients in the Final Year of Life
- Heart Failure Patients and Their Families Desire Earlier Palliative Care centered on Both Patients and Caregivers
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 4 Issue 1)
- Physicians Urged to Ensure Access to Hospice for an Often “Invisible’ Population
- Time-Limited Trials can Help Patients and Families Shift Focus to Hospice Care
- Burdensome End-of-Life Transitions Found Common among Nursing Home Patients with Advanced Dementia
- Having an Advance Directive Does Not Decrease Survival in Patients
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 3 Issue 4)
- Facing Death in Supportive Setting Improves Quality of Life, Extends Survival
- Discussing Goals of Care and Initiation of Palliative Care in Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD): ‘The Earlier the Better’
- One-Third of Tube-Fed Dementia Patients Are Restrained Near Death
- Lung Cancer Patients Receive Aggressive End-of-Life Care in Both US and Canada
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 3 Issue 3)
- Determining Prognosis in Dementia Patients Remains Elusive
- Step-Wise Approach to Surrogate Decision Making Honors Patients’ Unique Values and Surrogates’ Needs
- American Society of Clinical Oncology Issues Statement Urging Physicians to Integrate Early Palliative and End-of0Life Care Discussions into Cancer Care
- Hospice Rotation Broadens Med Students’ Perspective on Healing
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 3 Issue 2)
- ‘Surprise’ Question Found Effective As Screening Tool for Identifying Cancer Patients with Poor Prognosis
- Patients Who Die In Hospitals have Worse Quality of Life Than Those Dying with Hospice Care at Home
- COPD Patients Have Symptom Burden and Palliative Care Needs Similar to Patients with Advanced Cancer
- Optimal End-of-Life Communication Can Give patients What They Want: ‘Truth, Touch, and time’
- Patient-Reported End-of-Life Preferences Are Rarely Documented in Their Medical Records
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Volume 3 Issue 1)
- Mainstream News Portrays Cancer Treatments in Overly Positive Light
- Palliative Sedation: Ethically and Methodologically Different
- Goal-Directed Interventions to Relieve Suffering Deemed Palliative ‘Treatment”
- Intervention to Support End-of)Life Decisions via Telephone May Improve Quality of Care and Reduce Medicare Costs
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Vol 2 Issue 4)
- Patients Involved in Hospice Decision Three Times More Likely to Die at Home
- Kidney Disease Patients Report Lack of Support for Their End-of-Life Needs and Preferences
- Medical Students Feel Moderately Prepared to Deliver End-of-Life Care
- Likelihood of Receiving Antipsychotic Medication in Nursing Homes Linked to Facility-Level Prescribing Rates
- Montgomery Hospice: Hospice Matters for Physicians (Winter 2010)
- End-of-Life Care Physicians Share Strategies for Avoiding burnout
- Conversations with Patients can Reveal What is Meant by ‘I Want Everything’
- Researchers Develop Scale for Predicting Seven-Day Survival in Cancer Patients
- Early Physician Communication May Lead to More Hospice Use Among Metastatic Lung Cancer Patients
- Terminally-Ill Patients at Risk of Undertreatment or Overtreatment of Dyspnea