Surgical and Perioperative Palliative Care: Updates from 2018 (TH307)

Recent years have seen rapid expansion of the evidence base supporting the implementation of palliative care programs across health systems, ranging from the community to the intensive care unit. Surgical patients face uniquely complex decisions, significant symptom burden, and prognostic uncertainty, and their needs warrant surgery-specific palliative care delivery. Different models have been developed to address these needs, including communication training for surgical providers, embedded inpatient and outpatient surgical palliative care programs, improved prognostication models, and advanced care planning interventions.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Source Type: research