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Telehealth Equally Effective as In-Person Palliative Care in Maintaining Quality of Life in Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer

*June 2024*

Keypoints: 

  • A randomized comparative effectiveness trial confirmed that early palliative care delivered through video is just as effective as in-person visits on maintaining quality of life in patients with advanced lung cancer.
  • At 24 weeks, quality of life as assessed by the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Lung (FACT-L) score for the video group was 99.67 compared with 97.67 for the in-person group.
  • Patients and caregivers in both study groups reported similarly high satisfaction rates.

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