Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Hyperalgesia

Inpatient pediatric palliative care (PPC) has grown substantially over the past 20 years; however, PPC in the outpatient setting remains underdeveloped. Outpatient PPC (OPPC) offers opportunities to improve access to PPC as well as facilitate care coordination and transitions for children with serious illness.

Clinical practice guidelines advocate for routine assessment of symptoms and adverse events during immunotherapy treatment of cancer. Outside the clinical trial setting, there are few examples of such assessment in practice.

Palliative care services are commonly provided to hospitalized patients, but accurately predicting who needs them remains a clinical challenge.

The medical school curricula raced past feet. Sure, we memorized the names of all 26 bones and prepared for the identifier pin placed in any of the 100 muscles, ligaments, or tendons on our anatomy exams. Compared to vital knowledge like cardiac anatomy and liver function, feet were approached as an afterthought. As parenthetical references in tiny font, footnotes represent a nonessential nature…

Many cancer survivors experience a lingering symptom burden after chemotherapy.

Describe pediatric palliative care (PPC) patterns and treatment intensity during the last 48 hours of life among neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) patients in the Southern U.S. who received specialized PPC.

Stigma is known to impact the care of patients with opioid use disorder (OUD).

Although patients with non-malignant diseases have palliative care needs similar to those of cancer patients, they are less likely to receive specialist palliative care. Referral practices of oncologists, cardiologists, and respirologists could provide insight into reasons for this difference.