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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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-Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. I always knew that I wanted to get into healthcare, to use healthcare as a springboard for social change in our communities.

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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

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And what my goal was was to try to get a 360 degree view of the healthcare system by interviewing as many different types of people that will influence care for people who are at the end-of-life or people with serious illness in the hospital. Liz: Yeah, palliative care teams is exactly one of those institutional factors.

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

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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. We’ve come so far as a field.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

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So I think until we figure out how to deliver these evidence based interventions in resource intense places with individuals like you, who are committed to research, committed to furthering the science, it’s really hard to think about how to disseminate them to the community. But we have to. And I do think that is the way of the future.

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

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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. So basically, to achieve the same quality of life benefit as the intensive arm patients saw palliative care, significantly fewer. Eric 31:38 Half is less, right?