Hospice & Palliative Medicine

  • Comfort care: Creating a plan for hospitalized patients and their families

    Kelly Ferraro, MD, Melissa Morris, DNP and Kimberly A. Indovina, MD
    • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2026, 93 (7) 389-395;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.93a.25109

    • Comfort care plans are always individualized and should naturally evolve as the patient’s clinical status changes.

  • Psychedelics in the medical toolbox?

    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2025, 92 (4) 200-201;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92b.04025

    • Given the historical association of psychedelics as “recreational” mind-altering compounds within countercultures of the 1960s and 1970s, their current introduction into several aspects of medical practice is a surprise to many.

  • Psychedelics, spirituality, and existential distress in patients at the end of life

    Nicole Cornish, PharmD, Tara Coles, MD, M. Jennifer Cheng, MD, Claudia Ruiz Sotomayor, MD, DBe, Aaron Wolfgang, MD and Christopher Spevak, MD, MPH, JD
    • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2025, 92 (4) 248-254;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92a.24100

    • The authors explore the role of psychedelics in addressing patients’ spiritual and existential suffering at the end of life from a medical, ethical, and legal perspective.

  • Providing comfort: Caring for patients who wish to die in their home country

    Kelly Ferraro, MD, Sandhya Sharma, MD and Kimberly A. Indovina, MD
    • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2024, 91 (5) 270-272;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.91a.23095

    • The authors offer a framework for providing equitable care to terminally ill patients who seek the comfort of dying at home.

  • Frequently asked questions about managing cancer pain: An update

    Renato V. Samala, MD, MHPE, FACP, FAAHPM, Ruth L. Lagman, MD, MPH, MBA, FACP, FAAHPM, Sina Najafi, DO and Flannery Fielding, CNP, MSN
    • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2021, 88 (3) 183-191;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20107

    • Pain management can involve pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapies.

  • Gastric outlet obstruction: A red flag, potentially manageable

    Andree H. Koop, MD, William C. Palmer, MD and Fernando F. Stancampiano, MD
    • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2019, 86 (5) 345-353;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18035

    • Presume the cause to be a malignant tumor untill proven otherwise.

  • Managing malignant pleural effusion

    Ali Saeed Wahla, MBBS, Mateen Uzbeck, MBBS, Yaser Abu El Sameed, MBBS and Zaid Zoumot, MBBS, MRCP, MSC, PHD
    • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2019, 86 (2) 95-99;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.17095

    • Depending on the circumstances, options are observation, thoracentesis, an indwelling catheter, and chemical pleurodesis.

  • A physician’s response to observational studies of opioid prescribing

    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2018, 85 (11) 824-825;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85b.11018

    • Not long ago, we were told we needed to do better at relieving pain.

  • In reply: Opioid therapy and sleep apnea (June 2016)

    Marissa C. Galicia-Castillo, MD
    • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2017, 84 (2) 94;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84c.02002

  • Opioid therapy and sleep apnea (June 2016)

    Aaron S. Geller, MD
    • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2017, 84 (2) 91-94;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84c.02001

    • Readers comment on opioids and sleep apnea (June 2016).

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