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A large trial showed that palliative care delivered by video works as well as in person for people with advanced lung cancer. Payers should cover it so that distance from a hospital no longer decides who gets it.
The REACH PC trial (Greer and colleagues, reported 2024) found that early palliative care delivered by video was equivalent to in-person care on quality of life in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer. Most palliative care teams are in cities; most patients are not. Making video delivery a reimbursed, guideline-endorsed default, with in-person visits when needed, would extend the reach of a scarce workforce.
Shares Temel: early palliative care alongside chemotherapy improved quality of life, mood and survival in lung cancer, Pain relief and palliative care are unavailable to most.
Shares Temel: early palliative care alongside chemotherapy improved quality of life, mood and survival in lung cancer, Pain relief and palliative care are unavailable to most, Non-small-cell lung cancer.
Shares Temel: early palliative care alongside chemotherapy improved quality of life, mood and survival in lung cancer, Non-small-cell lung cancer.
Shares Pain relief and palliative care are unavailable to most, Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists.
Shares Pain relief and palliative care are unavailable to most, Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists.
Shares Pain relief and palliative care are unavailable to most, Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists.
Shares Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists, Non-small-cell lung cancer.
Shares Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists, Non-small-cell lung cancer.