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Hematology/Oncology and Palliative Care Collaboration

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The collaboration between hematology/oncology and palliative care has evolved as the field of palliative care has become more established. This complex relationship is largely based on what primary hematologists/oncologists think palliative care teams can offer to their patients, and their individual or collective views of what palliative care is. Hematologic malignancies and serious blood disorders include a broad spectrum of diseases, clinical characteristics, treatments, and outcomes. There is a considerable amount of prognostic uncertainty for medical teams, patients, and families. Many hematologic disorders have significant symptom burden, physical and psychosocial distress, and patients can experience a significant decrease in quality of life. Collaboration with a palliative care team can provide support and care not only for patients and families but for the primary hematology/oncology team as well. Several models of collaboration between palliative care and the primary team exist. These include specialty clinics, specialty palliative care teams, and embedded primary palliative care.

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  1. Department of Hospitalist Medicine, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC, USA

    Courtney W. Johnson

  2. PANDA Education Consultants, PLLC, Lakeland, FL, USA

    Deborah A. Lafond

  3. Divisions of Hematology and Oncology, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA

    Steven J. Hardy

  4. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA

    Steven J. Hardy

  5. Department of Oncology, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA

    Elizabeth Hardesty

  6. Department of Oncology, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA

    Shana S. Jacobs

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Johnson, C.W., Lafond, D.A., Hardy, S.J., Hardesty, E., Jacobs, S.S. (2023). Hematology/Oncology and Palliative Care Collaboration. In: Ullrich, C.K., Roeland, E.J. (eds) Palliative Care in Hematologic Malignancies and Serious Blood Disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38058-7_7

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