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EPEC is hosting our 26th Annual 3-day EPEC Chicago Conferences on September 24-26th, 2026! Check out our website for more details.

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In JAMA, Nicole Mushero and colleagues discuss important issues in palliative care and hospice for people who are incarcerated.

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A systematic review identified 56 studies of palliative care education programs for nurses in low- and middle-income countries.  Outcomes included improved attitudes, confidence, and knowledge acquisition.
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In a randomized clinical trial, an app-facilitated palliative care intervention helped patients with advanced cancer maintain quality of life and self-efficacy while also reducing acute care utilization.

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In a New England Journal of Medicine essay entitled “Goals of Care and the Importance of Being Polish,” Dr. Mark Earnest remembers a Veteran patient.

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In Journal of Clinical Oncology, Dr. Tim Gilligan and colleagues wrote an updated ASCO guideline about patient-clinician communication. Many of the topics are relevant to palliative care.

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In the Journal of General Internal Medicine, Dr. Justin Cordova reflects on Jane Kenyon’s poem, Back.

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In JAMA Internal Medicine, Dr. Verma and colleagues published a cluster randomized trial of a primary palliative care intervention for end-stage-liver disease that demonstrated outcomes similar to specialist-delivered palliative care.
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In JAMA, Dr. Michael Wynn published a poem entitled “Mortality.”

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In a written and audio interview entitled “How Ben Sasse is Living Now That He Is Dying," the former Nebraska Senator discusses his experience with pancreatic cancer.

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In a Perspective essay in the New England Journal of Medicine, What is Hospice?, Teva Brender describes a number of ways to answer that basic but complicated question.

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In a Perspectives essay in the New England Journal of Medicine, colleagues discuss the role of palliative care in the care of patients with sickle cell disease.

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In JAMA Oncology, David Hui and colleagues published a randomized clinical trial showing improvement in agitated delirium with the use of proportional sedation with a benzodiazepine.

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In JAMA Internal Medicine, investigators at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute discuss potential reforms to caregiving benefits under the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

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Palliative Care Specialist Use Among Medicare Decedents Who Had Poor-Prognosis Cancers | Oncology | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network

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Harms of Morphine for Chronic Breathlessness in Relation to Dose, Duration and Titration Phase - ScienceDirect
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EPEC, in collaboration with Anáhuac University (Queretaro, Mexico), will host EPEC-Mexico on November 22-23, 2025! The conference will be presented in Spanish and feature facilitators from Anáhuac and EPEC. Registration is open - more details on our website.

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In JAMA Neurology, Robert Holloway, discusses faith and doubt in the context of two patients in palliative care. https://t.co/DnYbQet7yQ

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In Journal of Clinical Oncology, investigators showed improvement of QOL, caregiving burden, depression, and PTSD symptoms among caregivers of patients undergoing stem cell transplant who used a psychosocial digital support app

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A trial in JAMA involving 16 ICUs demonstrated that a nurse-led family support intervention improved family satisfaction with ICU care.
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