Randomized Clinical Trial Shows Palliative Care in Heart Failure Improves Patient Outcomes

A big team from Duke lead by Joseph Rogers has a new Paper (reporting the results of a RCT of palliative care in late stage Congestive Heart Failure, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Patients who got palliative care had better quality of life, higher function and...

A big team from Duke lead by Joseph Rogers has a new Paper (reporting the results of a RCT of...

The Key to Policy Change

Health Evolution's David Brailer (also a member of the Duke-Margolis Advisory Board) sat down with director Mark McClellan to discuss the next iteration of the value equation to include prescription drugs, devices and gene therapies.

Health Evolution's David Brailer (also a member of the Duke-Margolis Advisory Board) sat down with...

Growth Of ACOs And Alternative Payment Models In 2017

Study Creates Benchmarks for Evaluating Community-Based Palliative Care

Use of palliative care, an interdisciplinary approach to caring for individuals with life-limiting illness focused on improving quality of life, is increasing as our population ages and evidence about its benefits grows. However, there is still little information about which care activities are...

Use of palliative care, an interdisciplinary approach to caring for individuals with life-limiting...