MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care

This podcast will address the complexity of prognostication in chronic advanced illness and cancer.

The goal of the podcast is to discuss care options available in the US including hospice and palliative care and how they are implemented.

This podcast reviews the use of medical marijuana in symptom care--particularly in pain, nausea, and anorexia. 

This podcast aims to improve clinicians' knowledge of research practices, enhancing their ability to participate in research and to critically evaluate the research literature in palliative care.

This podcast reviews the guidelines and recommendations for the safe use of methadone for chronic pain, including how to avoid risks related to overdose and cardiac arrhythmias.

The purpose of this podcast is to explore how the treatment of lung cancer can affect quality of life.

The purpose of this podcast is to enhance the knowledge of primary care physicians and nurse practitioners in the palliation of postherpetic neuralgia in a patient with chronic leukemia.

This podcast provides nurses with information and strategies to implement evidence-based practices to prevent and/or manage wounds in advanced illness.

This podcast explores a broad spectrum of definitions of the futility concept, contextualizes futility in relation to various goals of care, addresses the underlying motives of parties involved in decision-making, and proposes an alternative concept to futility.

This podcast discusses screening and best practices for managing pain and symptoms among the chronically ill in community settings.