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Primary Palliative Care for Cancer: Podcast with Yael Schenker and Bob Arnold
"The take home message of this study is NOT that primary palliative care does not work." So says Yael Schenker of the negative study of an oncology nurse-led primary palliative care intervention for people with advanced cancer.
And we pushed Yael and Bob Arnold (senior author) on this point - we have several negative studies of primary palliative care (see links below to podcasts) - is it time to start to question the effectiveness of primary palliative care?
We certainly all agree on the problem: we have only enough palliative care specialists to care for some small proportion of the…
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