Sentence examples for get palliative from inspiring English sources

Her medical team asked if they could get palliative care involved.

A few studies have found that hospital care for patients who get palliative care consultations costs thousands of dollars less than care for those who do not.

We will only get palliative care if we, the public, the "consumers," demand that insurance companies and ACOs and Medicare adequately cover palliative care, homecare, and hospice care.

Additional research has shown that patients who receive palliative care at the same time as cancer treatment live longer than people who only get usual cancer care but don't get palliative care.

It is possible that differential effects by SEP might be seen if treatment-intent was examined, with more deprived SEP patients more likely to get palliative radiotherapy, and less deprived patients are likely to get curative radiotherapy.

It might be that patients could stay at home because they insisted on staying at home, had an informal caregiver at home, or had a low symptom burden, and therefore were in the right place to get palliative care from their GP.

Those getting palliative care from the start, the authors said, reported less depression and happier lives as measured on scales for pain, nausea, mobility, worry and other problems.

So was Amy: she now gets palliative chemotherapy, which keeps her disease under control but doesn't aggressively try to beat it, and a drug called Zometa to help her bones stay strong.

According to Dr. Sean Morrison, professor of palliative medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, and co-author of a 2015 article "Palliative Care for the Seriously Ill" in the New England Journal of Medicine, patients getting palliative care are more involved in decisions, may avoid expensive procedures, and may have fewer emergency room visits.

The Belgian study is recruiting 600 dying patients, half of whom will get usual palliative care, while the others will be cared for using the LCP.

Without so much as an introduction, this experienced doctor broke the news to the patient of his terminal illness by turning to the bedside entourage and muttering, perfectly audibly: "Get a palliative care nurse to come and see him".