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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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link] Kensington Hospice & ‘Radical Love’ Equity-Oriented Hospice Palliative Care Naheed Dosani also serves as the Medical Director of Kensington Hospice, Torontos largest hospice. Alex 14:44 It’s in the name home based palliative care. those experiencing homelessness).

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

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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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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

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In this article, it was availability of hospice services, but we also know availability of ICU services. Liz: Yeah, palliative care teams is exactly one of those institutional factors. And palliative care friendliness was definitely a very important factor to this.

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

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We did not want them to already have seen home palliative care. Eric 20:26 And that includes home hospice care. And then we also didn’t give them access to palliative care social work on the stepdarmouse. There was a difference, though, in hospice utilization, right? Jennifer 31:40 About half.