Background: Despite improvements, patients with advanced cancer often do not receive goal-concordant care at the end of life (EOL). Challenges with prognostication contribute to delays ACP conversations and result in more aggressive care, gaps in...
Introduction: Efforts to expand the lung transplant (LTx) donor pool have led to increased use of lungs from donors after circulatory death (DCD), with evidence demonstrating outcomes comparable to those from donors after brain death (DBD). Although...
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Differences in the rates of deep brain stimulation (DBS) based on socioeconomic and demographic variables have been investigated for indications such as Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, and epilepsy. Descriptive studies analyzing the...