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How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

Hospice News

A dearth of coordination or integration between rehab teams and palliative care teams routinely forces some patients into a cycle between the hospital and the nursing home in their last year of life. According to statistics cited in the study, 23% of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries were discharged to a post-acute care facility in 2013.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

First, Nisha, a pain and palliative care pharmacist, starts us off with discussing the pharmacology of gabapentin and pregabalin, including common myths like they work on the GABA system (which is weird given the name of the drug). J Am Geriatr Soc. It’s a big episode covering a lot of topics. Oh, we should also plug your podcast.