How do you manage patients desiring home hospice but with severe thrombocytopenia and/or anemia due to advanced malignancy?

Do you consider supportive transfusions, and if so, have you been successful with keeping patients on hospice while receiving transfusions?

Do you use growth factors?

Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Community Practice

Hospice is a type of palliative care delivered for patients with terminal prognosis and life expectancy of 6 months or fewer. Generally, hospice companies will not provide supportive transfusions of packed red blood cells or platelets. Similarly, growth factors are not part of the routine formulary ...

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Medical Oncologist at Locum Tenens
Well stated. When a patient has a life expec...

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