Palliative care has beneficial effect on quality of life following stem cell transplantation

(The JAMA Network Journals) Among patients with hematologic malignancies undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, the use of inpatient palliative care compared with standard transplant care resulted in a smaller decrease in quality of life two weeks after transplantation, according to a study appearing in the Nov. 22/29 issue of JAMA.

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