The health care cost of palliative care for cancer patients: a systematic review.

Objectives: Several delivery models of palliative care are currently available: hospital-based, outpatient-based, home-based, nursing home-based, and hospice-based. Weighing the differences in costs of these delivery models helps to advise on the future direction of expanding palliative care services. The objective of this review is to identify and summarize the best available evidence in the US on cost associated with palliative care for patients diagnosed with cancer.

Knowledge of Palliative Care Among American Adults: 2018 Health Information National Trends Survey.

Context: Palliative care will play an important role to alleviate disease suffering and improve quality of life for cancer patients and their family caregivers.

Objective: We examined the knowledge penetration of palliative care in a nationally representative sample of U.S.