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Preventable and Aggressive Care for Cancer Patients: To the Bitter End

AJN Off the Charts

The study looked at claims data from January 2013 to December 2017 among 146,329 older patients with metastatic breast, colorectal, lung, pancreas, or prostate cancer. What can we nurses do to support informed choices? Palliative care could prevent many ED visits. were made by patients with cancer.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

GeriPal

Our guests are BJ Miller, palliative care physician and c-founder of Mettle Health , and Naomi Saks, chaplain at UCSF. Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Alex: And we also have Naomi Saks, who’s a palliative care chaplain and an assistant professor at UCSF. Pain Manag Nurs.

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