Items Tagged ‘palliative care’
February 19, 2019
Home-based palliative care may not be a simple doctor-patient relationship, but the value it adds is simple to understand It takes a village to raise a child. The inputs and interactions with many adults across their community serve to usher children through the ups and downs of life into adulthood and aid them to live […]
Tags: care transitions, Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Christina Y. Chen, collaboration, Gregory Hanson, Kern Health Care Delivery Scholars, palliative care, population health, quality of life
November 12, 2018
Research News Roundup — October 2018
Welcome to Advancing the Science. On Mayo Clinic’s medical research blog we have a wide range of research and research-education content. In addition to stories you won’t find anywhere else, we also collect content from other sources in one easy-to-access spot. The monthly Research News Roundup is one such aggregator, highlighting and linking to all […]
Tags: Ayalew Tefferi, brain cancer, breast cancer, cancer, Center for Individualized Medicine, Elizabeth Cathcart-Rake, health disparities, hematology, inflammatory bowel disease, integrative medicine, John Hawse, Julie Heimbach
May 19, 2015
Single Biggest Concern: A Palliative Approach
For people living with serious illness, both patients and care providers, identifying the single biggest concern can be a difficult task. There are so many concerns – from “Who will help me if I am too weak to care for myself?” to “How can we treat my nausea and pain?” When interrupted by a serious […]
Tags: artificial intelligence, Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Cory Ingram, palliative care, patient reported outcomes