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

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Jennifer’s study is most widely known for the “kicker” – not only did it improve quality of life, palliative care was associated with a couple months longer survival. . Areej’s study is remarkably novel in that it is, to our knowledge, the first study of palliative care during curative treatment. . hint: coping).

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

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Summary Transcript Summary One marker of the distance we’ve traveled in palliative care is the blossoming evidence base for the field. They study palliative care. She’s pulmonary critical care and palliative medicine trained. These are big trials in palliative care. Kate: Thank you.

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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

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Similarly Jessica Zitter, an intensivist and palliative care doctor analogized the inevitable clinical momentum toward highly aggressive intensive care in US hospitals as a conveyor belt. Eric and I are joined today on this podcast by Anne Kelly palliative care social worker to discuss these issues with Liz.

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

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Summary Transcript CME Summary If palliative care was a drug, one question we would want to know before prescribing it is what dose we should give. On today’s podcast, we talk about finding an evidence-based answer to this dosing question with three leaders in palliative care: Jennifer Temel , Chris Jones , and Pallavi Kumar.