Concordant palliative care delivery in advanced head and neck cancer.

Objectives: To describe the palliative care consultation practices in an academic head and neck surgery practice.

Methods: This is a retrospective review of a palliative care database and the health record for all palliative care consultations of patients suffering from advanced stage head and neck cancer within a 21-month period.

Results: Ten head and neck cancer patients received palliative care consults while on the otolaryngology service.

Occurrence of Advance Care Planning and Hospital Course in Patients Admitted for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) During the Pandemic.

Introduction: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic highlighted the importance of understanding patients' goals, values, and medical care preferences given the high morbidity and mortality. We aimed to examine rates of advance care planning (ACP) documentation along with hospital course differences in the absence or presence of ACP among hospitalized patients with COVID-19.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study was performed at a single tertiary academic medical center.