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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. And then, you chose for the intervention to include a nurse and a social worker. Important implications.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Hospice News ELEVATE : Fireside Chat with Netsmart

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This article is sponsored by Netsmart. This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Maria Warren, Vice President of Clinical Consulting at Netsmart that took place at the Hospice News Elevate Conference in Chicago. The article below has been edited for length and clarity. You can’t take it as one size fits all.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

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Having read at least some of your research articles there’s a lot of focus around this intersection between what happens to people after the hospital stay post-acute, especially in the cancer patients. Eric: I felt that reading the article. We’ll have a link to that article on our show notes. Ann: Likely.

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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

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Eric and I are joined today on this podcast by Anne Kelly palliative care social worker to discuss these issues with Liz. Alex: And joining us as she has many times, Anne Kelly is a social worker at the San Francisco VA. If there was a headline for this article, what would it be? Welcome, Liz. Liz: Thanks.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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And for this podcast in particular, both Bill and Louise wrote articles that we’re going to be discussing particular patient cases. So while you don’t have to, we’re gonna summarize these articles. If you have a chance to read those articles before you listen to this podcast, I highly recommend that you do.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

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If you are interested in signing the position statement “Core Roles and Responsibilities of Physicians in Hospice Care”, click here. Ira: I like the article. I don’t want Ava Kofman’s article to draw all our attention because the issues that she brought out had been brought out before. She’s filming us today.

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