Short-term Palliative Care for Advanced Neurologic Disease

Kate T Brizzi

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.15247

Abstract

Short-term Palliative Care for Advanced Neurologic Disease

Highlights

By definition, palliative care is person-centered care that is delivered by a team of health care professionals
A 2017 Neuropalliative Care Summit identified the need for process-oriented research to help understand which palliative care tools and interventions could be disseminated among varying health systems.[4]
Gao and colleagues note possible variability in how the short term integrated palliative care (SIPC) was used across their health centers, the ability to successfully implement a standardized SIPC across 7 different facilities may help to provide a guide for future studies

Summary

Introduction

Palliative care is person-centered care that is delivered by a team of health care professionals. While efficacy of an intervention is often the focus of study, in a nascent field such as neuropalliative care, the refining of the intervention itself is important. A 2017 Neuropalliative Care Summit identified the need for process-oriented research to help understand which palliative care tools and interventions could be disseminated among varying health systems.[4] Gao and colleagues note possible variability in how the SIPC was used across their health centers, the ability to successfully implement a standardized SIPC across 7 different facilities may help to provide a guide for future studies.

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