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End-of-Life Care
Aggressive End-of-Life Care Continues to Be Offered to Younger Patients with Cancer
By
Phoebe Starr
End-of-Life Care
,
Value in Oncology
,
Policies & Guidelines
August 2016, Vol 7, No 7, Special Issue: Payers’ Perspectives in Oncology
Aggressive end-of-life care for patients with terminal cancer and other illnesses is costly and not recommended. ASCO recommends that patients with terminal cancer should receive palliative care rather than interventions that do not prolong life but do add to suffering.
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Teamwork Improves End-of-Life Care, Saves Money
By
Phoebe Starr
End-of-Life Care
,
Palliative Care
,
Policies & Guidelines
,
Personalized Medicine
December 2015, Vol 6, No 11
San Antonio, TX—An innovative care model program for end-of-life care for patients with cancer improved symptom management, reduced hospitalizations and in-hospital deaths, and increased the use of hospice care.
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Family Patient-Related Factors Main Barriers to End-of-Life Discussions
By
Meg Barbor, MPH
End-of-Life Care
,
Palliative Care
,
Policies & Guidelines
December 2015, Vol 6, No 11
Boston, MA—Family- and patient-related factors were identified as the most significant barriers to early end-of-life discussions, as well as to the timely discontinuation of cancer-directed therapies in the palliative setting, according to the results of a multicenter survey of oncologists in Ontario, Canada.
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IOM’s Call to Action on End-of-Life Care in the United States
By
Laura Morgan
End-of-Life Care
,
Policies & Guidelines
October 2014, Vol 5 , No 8
The initiative to improve end-of-life care in the United States is taking center stage, and it is about time. The US population is aging, and the number of older Americans with comorbidities is growing.
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The Cost of End-of-Life Care in Oncology
By
Craig Deligdish, MD
End-of-Life Care
,
From the Editor
,
Policies & Guidelines
,
Value Peer-spectives
November 2013, Vol 4, No 9
The recent Institute of Medicine report “Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care: Charting a New Course for a System in Crisis” addressed the important issues of delivering high-quality cancer care, including end-of-life care.
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Healthcare Reform and End-of-Life Care Myths versus Reality
By
Caroline Helwick
End-of-Life Care
,
Policies & Guidelines
July 2013, Vol 4, No 6
Hollywood, FL—End-of-life issues have advanced in a positive direction since the so-called death panel controversy of 2009, but health plans still need to promote these discussions, said J. Russell Hoverman, MD, PhD, Vice President, Quality Programs, Texas Oncology, at the Third Annual Conference of the Association for Value-Based Cancer Care.
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Involving the Patient in End-of-Life Care Decisions: Aetna’s Oncology Strategy
By
Caroline Helwick
AVBCC Annual Conference
,
End-of-Life Care
,
Policies & Guidelines
July 2012, Vol 3, No 5
Houston, TX—Payer-sponsored programs that promote appropriate end-of-life care are beneficial to all stakeholders, according to Ira M. Klein, MD, MBA, Chief of Staff to the Chief Medical Officer, Aetna Oncology Strategy.
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Do End-of-Life Products Deserve Special Treatment?
End-of-Life Care
,
ISPOR Annual Meeting
,
Policies & Guidelines
July/August 2010, Vol 1, No 3
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For Dying Patients, Emergency Care Is Less than Ideal
End-of-Life Care
,
Policies & Guidelines
May 2010, Vol 1, No 1
A Canadian study examining the reasons why a patient with cancer will visit the emergency department near the end of life points out shortcomings in current care delivery systems and suggests a greater role for more effective palliative care, say the authors.
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