The Intensive Palliative Care Unit: Changing Outcomes for Hospitalized Cancer Patients in an Academic Medical Center

Zhang, Haipeng; M. Barysauskas, Constance; Rickerson, Elizabeth; J. Catalano, Paul; O. Jacobson, Joseph; Dalby, Carol; Lindvall, Charlotta; Selvaggi, Kathy

doi:10.1089/jpm.2016.0225

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The Intensive Palliative Care Unit: Changing Outcomes for Hospitalized Cancer Patients in an Academic Medical Center

Published in Journal of Palliative Medicine • Dec 21, 2016

Authors:

Haipeng Zhang

Constance M. Barysauskas

Elizabeth Rickerson

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Patients with advanced cancer often require complex symptom management. At Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, the intensive palliative care unit (IPCU) admits symptomatic oncology patients with uncontrolled symptoms throughout the trajectory of illness. Patients are uniquely ...

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Medicine

Center (category theory)

Palliative care

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