Palliative VS Hospice Care

The American Society of Clinical Oncology and other medical societies, recommend that patients with advanced cancer receive palliative care directly after diagnosis and call in hospice care for at least the last 3 days of their life. However, shown by a new study there are major gaps between these recommendations and real-life practice.

Risha Gidwani, DrPH is a health economist at Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Economics Resource Center and a consulting assistant professor of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine who, along with her colleagues, examined care received by all veterans over the age of 65 diagnosed …read more