Knowledge Gaps Among Nurses Create Barriers for Patients Across the Globe

Recent research has tied nurses’ insufficient knowledge of palliative care to underutilization of those services in various countries worldwide. Researchers from the School of Nursing at Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Guang’an Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine’s director office recently performed a systematic review of various studies throughout the globe that examined nurses’ […]

VA Health System Boosts Palliative Referrals with Clinical Education

Integrating palliative consultations into care management for heart failure patients improves utilization and fosters greater understanding among referring clinicians, research from the Veteran Affairs (VA) Connecticut Healthcare System has found. VA Connecticut Healthcare System researchers recently rolled out the educational study to determine whether consultative services would boost palliative care referrals for hospital-based heart failure […]