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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

We were really interested in the gap that exists after patients leave the ED or an observation status and go home, so what we did is we randomized patients, it was patient-level randomization, to either nurse-led telephonic care for six months, or specialty outpatient palliative care for six months. Was this the same?

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

You got palliative care psychologists and social workers and pharmacists and MP’s and physicians and nurses, you know, the chaplains. So quality of life was, if we want to talk about just the as good as the more intensive model, but we used significantly fewer palliative care resources.