Hospice News

JUNE 5, 2023

This article is based on a discussion with Fred Bentley, Managing Director for Medicare Innovation and ATI Advisory, Allison Silvers, Chief of Healthcare Transformation at the Center to Advance Palliative Care and Ryan Klaustermeier, Vice President of Professional Services at Axxess. Hospice News: Excellent. Klaustermeier: Sure.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Asking clinicians whether they had offered the option of withdrawal of life support and comfort-focused care also did not change length of stay, but did increase the discharges to hospice, odds greater than two-fold, whether it was done alone or in combination with the prognostication nudge. Were these two resources already there?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In this article, it was availability of hospice services, but we also know availability of ICU services. 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.

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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. That is correct.

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