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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

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How do we move from efficacy (works in highly controlled settings) from effectiveness (works in real world settings? Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. By diagnosis? By prognosis?

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

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And that helped them focus on that instead of, say, the blood pressure, the vasopressors or the ventilator settings that day. 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. Welcome, Corita and Kate and Tom. Kate: Thank you.

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100 Men in Nursing – amazing male nurses, midwives and students

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Social Work. It’s something that makes me laugh, because if they follow any of us around, no matter the area we work in, they would understand it is so much more than that. Ashton is also an Ambassador for the Alannah & Madeline Foundation who work to keep children safe from violence. Paediatric Nursing. Paramedics.

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