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Greater Education Needed to Bring Palliative Care to Cancer Patients

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Cancer patients generally need palliative care, but widespread misperceptions often stand in their way, both among the public and many clinicians themselves. This is according to Nadine Barrett, president of the Association of Cancer Care Centers (ACCC). Do most cancer patients have access to palliative care? Are there big gaps?

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Oncologists: Palliative Care Plays ‘Critical Role’ in Improving Quality, Health Equity

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Interdisciplinary palliative care delivery can help to improve quality and health disparities among underserved cancer patient populations, according to oncology specialists. Barrett is also the associate director of community outreach and engagement at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptists Office of Cancer Health Equity. Theres a huge gap there.

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Building Stronger Palliative Care-Psychiatry Collaborations

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Patients with serious mental illnesses (SMI) have a range of complex needs that greater integration of psychiatry into palliative care could help address. Danielle Chammas, palliative care physician and psychiatrist at University California, San Franciscos (UCSF) School of Medicine. Chammas said in a recent GeriPal podcast.

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Integrating Social Determinants Into Palliative Care

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Strong staff education and reimbursement are among the keys to successfully integrating social determinants of health within a palliative care program. Screening tools developed by the U.S. Does palliative care intersect with social determinants of health? That is the happiest marriage, Romanello told Palliative Care News at the conference.

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Inside Heart to Heart Hospice’s Palliative Care Growth Strategy

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Heart to Heart Hospices return on investment in its community-based palliative care service line has come in the form of improved quality and financial outcomes. The Texas-based hospices InHome Connect Palliative Care brand has led to significant declines in capitated per member per month (PMPM) costs and positive trends in timely access.

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Goal-Concordant Palliative Psychiatry Needs Quality Framework

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Palliative psychiatry care approaches can be key to improving quality of life among patients with severe and persisting mental illness (SPMI). However, a lack of standardized quality measures for these care models is challenging the ability to measure efficacy. At the moment, palliative psychiatry is an idea.

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Defining Palliative Care Quality in Murky Regulatory Waters

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Calls are growing louder for a federally established set of standardized palliative guidelines. Capturing real-time quality data is an important part of effectively managing patients symptoms and needs, according to Dr. Monisha Pujari, medical director of Georgia-based Longleaf Hospice & Palliative Care.