AJN Off the Charts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In all my years of nursing, this was about as optimal an advance care planning encounter as possible. There was a palliative care resource in the cancer center to help with both symptom management and introducing the idea of advance care planning. A best-case scenario.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We were really interested in the gap that exists after patients leave the ED or an observation status and go home, so what we did is we randomized patients, it was patient-level randomization, to either nurse-led telephonic care for six months, or specialty outpatient palliative care for six months. Was this the same?

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Hospice News

JUNE 5, 2023

I have heard a lot of ACO people being very frustrated that they’re like, “We have this palliative care program but there’s a three month waiting list. We don’t really have a palliative care resource.” What’s the point?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

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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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Obviously, I don’t think that symptom monitoring is the same as you wonderful people coming in and taking care of patients and their families. But I think thinking about combined models of care, like can we use palliative care resources if we’re monitoring patient symptoms?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

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. Eric 31:38 Half is less, right?

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

MARCH 27, 2023

• Communicable disease epidemics and pandemics, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, intensify the healthcare inequities encountered by people who use drugs. • Pandemics are expected to increase the demand for palliative care resources. • People who use drugs with life-limiting illnesses experience inequities in access (..)

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