The National Palliative Care Research Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, has been awarded a five million dollar grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The study will evaluate palliative care on the quality of care of the patients and also look at what programs are effective.
Palliative care consultation teams have been shown in small preliminary studies to improve the identification and treatment of pain and symptoms and to improve family satisfaction with care. These studies however did not explain the structure and processes of care linked to the achievement of these outcomes.
The study will assess the structure, processes and clinical outcomes of care among hospitalized persons with advanced cancer that receive palliative care as compared to similar patients receiving usual hospital care.
The National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC) promotes evidence based palliative care research in order to improve the care of patients with serious illness, and their families.
1. Palliative care can be so beneficial for many patients. We need increase awareness of this form of care.
More at: http://www.mesotheliomaweb.org/palliativecare.htm
Posted at 8:47PM on Nov 30th 2006 by Cathy Cho