Hospice News April 15, 2024
The lion’s share of palliative care physicians dwell in more densely populated communities, creating disparities among the rural seriously ill population.
Recent research has found that more than 90% of board certified palliative physicians and nurse practitioners nationwide were located in metropolitan and urban areas in 2022. Only 10% of these palliative clinicians were in areas with the lowest socioeconomic levels. The study appeared in a recent issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Demand for palliative care is outpacing the growth of these programs, according to researcher Yingtong Chen, biostatistics data analyst at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Complicating the supply-demand issue further is a widespread variation in palliative care services and training across the...
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