Hospice News September 13, 2024
Recent research has found that palliative care’s value proposition may be gaining momentum across the health continuum and in educational settings.
Palliative Care Paves Way for Stronger Comorbidity Risk Assessment
Patients with liver cancer could benefit from receiving palliative care services and procedures further upstream in their illness trajectories.
Receiving palliative care could help avoid the risk of death in a hospital setting for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a type of liver cancer, according to a study published in Scientific Reports. Researchers examined 345 hospitalized HCC patients who underwent palliative locoregional therapy between January 2015 and December 2022.
Providing liver cancer patients with palliative support led to a higher predictive accuracy of their overall comorbidity risks, the study found.
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