Hospice News November 27, 2024
Low palliative care utilization is associated with higher risk of mental health challenges among patients with pancreatic cancer, recent research found.
Patients who recently received pancreatic cancer diagnoses may benefit from receiving palliative care services alongside mental health treatments, according to a recent study published in the MDPI journal Healthcare, which spanned the outcomes of 4,029 adults with this condition across an eight-year period.
Researchers dug into patients’ data to examine palliative care utilization and delivery of mental health services and pharmacotherapies between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2018. Nearly half, or 45.7%, of patients with anxiety and depression who received palliative care consultations also utilized mental health services within 12 months of a pancreatic cancer diagnosis. This was...
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