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Breast Cancer Patients Often Lack Access to Palliative Care

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A recent study of nearly 30,000 hospitalized metastatic breast cancer patients found that only 19% received palliative care from 2010 to 2014. Breast cancer patients often lack access to palliative care services, but the needle may be moving as researchers dig into common barriers and clinical and financial outcomes.

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Why Patients with Lymphoma Are Less Likely to Receive Hospice

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Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2014; 312 (18): 1888-1896. 2014; 18 (1): 50-55. J Clin Oncol. 2010; (29): 4457-4464. Kris A, Cherlin E, Prigerson H, et al. Length of hospice enrollment and subsequent depression in family caregivers: 13-month follow-up study. 2006; 14 (3): 264-269. Teno J, Clarridge B, Casey V, et al. J Palliat MEd.

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

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J Am Geriatr Soc. 2011-2014 JAMDA 2020 Efficacy of Gabapentinoids: Gabapentinoids for Pain: Potential Unintended Consequences. Donovan Maust is a geriatric psychiatrist and health services researcher at the University of Michigan. 2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

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Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. As is the case for many issues in geriatrics: some of the time, not all the time. I think it was 2014, but we did a survey of driving rehabilitation specialists in the U.S. Is it you, Emmy? Emmy: It is. I don’t know.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

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She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Krista Harrison, who is a Health Policy Researcher, an Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of Geriatrics.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

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Lexy: Yeah, so I can say that I became about, in 2014, I had the opportunity to lead a center at our health system called the Evans Center that focuses on religion, spirituality, and health. I don’t see a lot of those out there. Randomized controlled trials of chaplaincy interventions. Good night, everybody.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

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He’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc/researcher in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Kate: No, it’s a tough answer in part because, as Scott mentioned, this was being implemented somewhere in the 2014/15 range after funding and building and that pilot year. Good to see you. Ashwin, welcome back.