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Palliative Care in the ED Reduces Costs, Improves Patient Outcomes

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she said during the presentation. Patients presenting at the emergency department is a crucial moment in their care trajectory, according to Dr. Jonathan Abraham, a board-certified palliative medicine and emergency medicine physician at Corewell Health. When you do really good palliative care, what happens?”

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Preventing Adverse Drug Events in Hospice Care

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Documentation errors and a fragmented health system pose the greatest risks for adverse drug events among hospices. Another key to reducing adverse events is increasing education around medication management at the end of life, McPherson stated. Nearly half (45.7%) of these patients had more than one adverse drug event.

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Training Hospice Workers to Face Existential Distress, ‘Death Anxiety’

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Its] often even unspoken, but we know its ever present. Despite the prevalence and profound impact, this existential death anxiety is often unexplored or under-explore in [hospice] and palliative care training, which leaves a gap in the skills and therapeutic support that were able to provide for patients, Brenner said during the assembly.

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Hospices’ Mythbusting Strategies: ‘It’s Not Brink-of-Death Care’

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We must be better at positioning hospice care as a part of improving their lives, rather than simply being present at death.” We’ve had a lot of success with people gravitating to these events, because we’re always looking for someone else to partner with, whether it’s talking about advance directives, living wills and those types of things.

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Mahogany CEO: Hospice on Cusp of ‘Tremendous Revolution’

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They can use that energy trying to figure it all out to focus on being present. Its also for us to really learn how we can best support them in the event that they eventually need our services. Knowing what they qualify for can lessen that burden, and they can use those resources to do other things.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

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The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. So there’s an event or a series of events.

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World Hospice and Palliative Care Day Raises Global Awareness

Hospice News

The observance is now recognized on the second Saturday of every October and features educational and fundraising events in nearly 70 countries. The hospice will use the proceeds from the event to cover grief and bereavement services, palliative care, pediatric and veteran programs, Cabot said.