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

GeriPal

A colleague of mine up in Toronto did an ICU study actually asking clinicians, nurses, docs, six-month prognosis, both functional and vital status and compared it with actual observed status. Eric: We just did a podcast on creating palliative care consults. Were these two resources already there? Was this the same?

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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

GeriPal

More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths. Liz: Yeah, palliative care teams is exactly one of those institutional factors. Eric: Well, let’s dive into that.

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

GeriPal

On one hand, in palliative care, it’s like primary palliative care, people who’ve got a little bit of teaching. You got palliative care psychologists and social workers and pharmacists and MP’s and physicians and nurses, you know, the chaplains. Now we have two nurses for 8.5

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

And yet in my other rotations and experiences, it was so clear that we were resourcing people with palliative care resources very well. You didn’t have to walk many blocks down the street to a hospital or another facility where people were getting world class care. We just hired a nurse.