Opinions expressed are those of the author. Access to quality end-of-life care can mean the difference between comfort and distress in a person’s final days. Yet, millions of Americans still ...

The American Medical Association says “physician-assisted suicide is fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as ...

The findings point to disparities in end-of-life care ... home/long-term care, and others) settings. The death rates due to ischemic stroke showed distinct racial trends. In Black/African American ...

Routine data (ie, data collected for clinical or administrative purposes) have long been used to describe and quantify end-of-life experiences, including inequitable outcomes. For example, studies ...

When people are dying it changes… People facing life-threatening illnesses often access palliative care to ease their pain and help with difficult end-of-life choices. But for those living in ...

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