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Practical guidance for palliative care clinicians navigating safe and effective opioid prescribing in the outpatient setting.

Study finds that two AI models answered the majority of palliative care knowledge questions correctly, generating answers that clinician educators rated more highly than existing answer key.

An article in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management highlights how CAPC has scaled virtual clinical skills training to more than 160,000 clinicians over the past decade.

Combining clinician and patient nudges increased documented conversations about goals and preferences, driven largely by the clinician nudge.

Study finds seriously ill surgical patients often equate palliative care with hospice, but still raise related concerns with their surgeons.

An article examines why primary palliative care is key to closing the care gap for people with cancer, why past trials haven't replicated specialty care's benefits, and what's needed to move forward.

Practical guidance for palliative care clinicians navigating safe and effective opioid prescribing in the outpatient setting.

What palliative care clinicians need to know about recognizing and responding to suicidal ideation in patients with serious illness.

Under the proposal, the Medicare home health benefit could serve as a key entry point to palliative care.

Study suggests provider sequence may represent a novel quality signal that may better explain end-of-life outcomes than traditional palliative care program characteristics.

Study finds structured nurse outreach for high-risk metastatic lung cancer patients can meaningfully improve key quality and utilization outcomes, including reductions in hospital admissions, ED visits, and cost savings.

JAMA Network Open study examines the effect of a palliative care coaching intervention among family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer.

Apply for the 2027 AHA Circle of Life Award, which honors palliative care programs delivering innovative interdisciplinary palliative care, by July 15, 2026.

An embedded SW/NP hospital-based palliative care model reduced ICU admissions, shortened hospital stays, and proved sustainable over time.

While as many as 60% of patients who could benefit from palliative care don't receive it, Mayo Clinic is using AI to help close the gap.