Background: Palliative care can improve outcomes and quality of life for people with serious illness and is a critical aspect of care for hospitalized patients. Despite calls for more palliative care consultation services (PCCS), little is known about how PCCS structure and characteristics change over time. Such information is important for understanding how to sustain […]

Background: Prolongation of the QT interval is associated with adverse cardiac events, mainly a distinctive ventricular tachycardia known as Torsades de Pointes. Prolonged QT can be congenital or acquired and is OFTEN measured as a corrected QT interval of >450 msec for men and >470 msec for women. In a world where medical knowledge and […]