GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

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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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Well, it’s not an institutional factor, but institutions can either support having more palliative care teams, better palliative care resources, being palliative care friendly or being less so. And palliative care friendliness was definitely a very important factor to this.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

So I think there’s definitely overlap with that, but I think helping patients cope, make priorities, think through their goals and values early and along the illness course does facilitate and enable better end of life decision making, including advanced care planning. And I do think that is the way of the future.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

If we accept that frequent contact with palliative care is the standard of care, and we’re trying to do something that entails less contact or less palliative care, that’s the rationale for it being a non inferiority design, because we have to make the argument it’s no worse.

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