Palliative Care Sometimes Adds To Families’ Stress Burden, Study Finds

(By Rachel Bluth for Kaiser Health News)

Palliative-care counseling from trained specialists is not routinely needed for all families of patients with chronic critical illnesses and sometimes it might worsen their emotional distress, cautions a new study.

Habitually providing scarce palliative care services to cases indiscriminately may be ineffective when the meetings are limited to just one or two sessions, reported researchers in the July 5 issue of JAMA. Read article here…..

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