Palliative care: the long view
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD In 1976, Balfour Mount published a landmark description of the first palliative care unit, in the Royal…
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD In 1976, Balfour Mount published a landmark description of the first palliative care unit, in the Royal…
Clinical formulations, something that few of us outside of mental health providers know about, but can be a critical tool…
There are a lot of ways one can imagine on how to integrate palliative care into the intensive care unit…
by: Timothy Poore (@TimCPoore) More than 90% of non-institutionalized people over the age of 65 in the United States receive…
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) One out of every four people living in the United States will die in a nursing…
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD Do you know what the operator or person at the front desk is saying about palliative…
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) The word “palliative” is popping up in a lot of unexpected places of late. Sometimes…
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) So yesterday I wrote about the rapid uptake of using antipsychotics for insomnia in the hospital…
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD There’s been some terrific discussion about the ICU trial published in JAMA. I’d like to share…
In June, 2015 I wrote about the need to for new training programs in palliative care because of the projected…