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School of medicine receives $5 million grant to study impact of palliative care programs

Published in Cancer Weekly, November 21st, 2006

The National Palliative Care Research Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, has been awarded a $5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the effect of palliative care programs on quality of care for cancer patients.

According to Dr. Diane Meier, the Principal Investigator of the project, "The study will evaluate the impact of hospital palliative care on the quality of care for cancer patients. It will also create the evidence base necessary to determine which components of palliative care programs are key to their effectiveness."

Palliative care consultation teams have been...

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