Wednesday, August 18, 2010

I know what I would want...

Early palliative care with usual treatment.  As the piece by Atul Gawande (linked to in Anthony's earlier post) suggested, early palliative care (hospice) reduced the costs of care, without negatively affecting patient outcomes.  Now this NEJM-published study on metastatic lung cancer shows that it even extends the lives of terminally ill patients.

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