COPD is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States and is a serious respiratory
illness characterized by years of progressively debilitating breathlessness, high prevalence …

Background Those experiencing socioeconomic deprivation have poorer quality of health
throughout their life course which can result in poorer quality of death–with decreased …

Main objective There is limited information on how patient outcomes have changed during
the COVID-19 pandemic. This study characterizes changes in mortality, intubation, and ICU …

Importance Palliative care consultations in intensive care units (ICUs) are increasingly
prompted by clinical characteristics associated with mortality or resource utilization …

Background: Disparities in end-of-life (EOL) care remain among ethnic/racial minority
populations. Choosing hospice care in the United States depends on goals-of-care …

New therapeutic approaches can produce promising results even in severely ill cancer
patients. But they also pose new challenges with respect to prognostication, as patients who …

Background Provision of and access to paediatric end-of-life care is inequitable, but
previous research on this area has focused on perspectives of health professionals in …

Background: The existing palliative care services in India are concentrated in urban areas,
attached to tertiary care hospitals. This poses issues relating to access and equity for people …

Restrictive abortion laws have impacts reaching far beyond the immediate sphere of
reproductive health, with cascading effects on clinical and ethical aspects of neonatal care …

People with disorders of consciousness (DoC) are characteristically unable to
synchronously participate in decision-making about clinical care or research. The inability to …