Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Sickle Cell Disease
An article published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine offers ten tips to better empower palliative care clinicians caring for patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), an area where palliative care involvement has historically been limited. Developed by a multidisciplinary group of clinicians, topics covered include adopting a trauma-informed approach to address medical mistrust rooted in structural racism, managing acute and chronic pain, supporting advance care planning, navigating complex treatment decisions around curative therapies such as bone marrow transplant and gene therapy, and more.