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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

GeriPal

Liz: Yeah, palliative care teams is exactly one of those institutional factors. Well, it’s not an institutional factor, but institutions can either support having more palliative care teams, better palliative care resources, being palliative care friendly or being less so.

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

GeriPal

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.