When treatment in an intensive care unit no longer works, the more humane way is to shift the patient to comfort care.

Discharges to hospice after intensive care unit admission among Medicare recipients increased significantly from 2011 to 2023, according to a February article published in Annals of the American ...

However, a new national study reveals that more seniors are choosing a different path — transitioning from the high-tech world of the ICU to the comfort-focused environment of hospice. The findings ...

From 1993 to 2002, an increasing proportion of patients in whom advanced lung cancer had been diagnosed received ICU care near the end of life. Of those patients receiving ICU care, one in four ...

In recent years, medical guidelines and national policies have pushed hospitals to offer more palliative care to patients who are seriously ill. This has led to a major rise in palliative care use, ...

Patients who receive systemic anti-cancer treatment near end of life are more likely to be hospitalized, go to the intensive care unit or emergency department, and are less likely to utilize hospice ...

While chronically-ill Medicare patients spent less time in the hospital in 2007 compared to 2003, the intensity of care for patients who were hospitalized increased, according to a news release on the ...

Whether or not humans are ready, AI predictions are quietly set to become part of end-of-life medical decisions. Could an artificial intelligence algorithm used for end-of-life care decisions predict ...

Physicians in the U.S. are only marginally more likely to die at home or in hospice than other Americans, according to study results.“There have been considerable public health efforts aimed at ...

While palliative care is often associated with cancer or terminally-ill patients, the scope is much larger, with a focus on ...

Table 1 describes the baseline characteristics of eligible subjects age ≥ 66 years of age and the percentage of subjects who had received ICU care in the last 6 months of life. Among 45,627 patients ...