Journal ArticleAm J Hosp Palliat Care · August 2022
BACKGROUND: High-quality advance care planning (ACP) documentation facilitates the communication of patients' wishes as they progress in their disease course and travel between health care settings. No consensus exists regarding evaluation of documentation ...
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Journal ArticleRadiother Oncol · September 2019
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Antibodies against programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) are standard treatments for advanced melanoma. Palliative radiation therapy (RT) is commonly administered for this disease. Safety and optimal timing for this combination for ...
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Journal ArticleJ Palliat Med · May 2018
BACKGROUND: Evidence about the unique palliative care needs of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is limited. Improving the care of these patients will require a better understanding of their unmet needs, including symptom burden at the end of life ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Am Thorac Soc · October 2016
RATIONALE: Patients with idiopathic bronchiectasis are predominantly female and have an asthenic body morphotype and frequent nontuberculous mycobacterial respiratory infections. They also demonstrate phenotypic features (scoliosis, pectus deformity, mitra ...
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Journal ArticleJ Immunother Cancer · 2016
BACKGROUND: Checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy is becoming an effective treatment modality for an increasing number of malignancies. As a result, autoinflammatory side-effects are also being observed more commonly in the clinic. We are currently unable to ...
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Journal ArticleClin Radiol · February 2015
AIM: To develop and validate a simple, reproducible method to assess dural sac size using standard imaging technology. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was institutional review board-approved. Two readers, blinded to the diagnoses, measured anterior-poste ...
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