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Facility-Bound Hospice Patients Less Likely to Get SIA Visits

Hospice News

“Based on these results, we find that institutionalized beneficiaries were less likely to receive SIA services, and even among those that did, received shorter visits,” Christian and Plotzke indicated at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) Annual Assembly.

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Advance Care Planning Billing Rules Impede Equitable Access

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Across 150 different studies, white adults represented nearly two-thirds (65.1%) of roughly 800,000 individuals who had completed advance directives between 2011 and 2016. The expense can range from $10 to $50 per patient, she added. Adding a financial cost further impedes access to an important service,” Freeland said.

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

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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. She’s pulmonary critical care and palliative medicine trained. These are big trials in palliative care. That’s a pretty big palliative care study.

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Executive Changes at Niagara Hospice, Transcend Strategy Group, AMOREM, HomeCare & Hospice

Hospice News

Niagara Hospice is part of The Hospice and Palliative Care Group (HPCG), an organization that provides administrative services. Established in 1971, the organization provides hospice, palliative, nursing and home care services across four counties in western New York. Gordon Hospice and Palliative Care of Tidewater.

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Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?

Pallimed

In September 2021, Pallimed published our second commentary, which focused on the astonishing disclosure of an important conflict-of-interest (COI) by Dr. Roger Chou (5), who co-authored the 2016 Guideline, calling its integrity into question (4, 5).

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PROP’s Disproportionate Influence on U.S. Opioid Policy: The Harms of Intended Consequences

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by Chad Kollas, MD ( @ChadDKollas ) Introduction A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has captured the attention of the palliative care and chronic pain communities (1). The Backlash to the PROP Petition Begins This unity within the supporters of the petitioning group was short-lived.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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We discussed it with today’s guests Heather Coats, palliative care NP-scientist, and Thor Ringler, poet. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 22 (5):392-400 / PMID: 32740304. Journal of Palliative Medicine , 23 (6), [link]. Summary Transcript Summary. Narrative medicine? Because that really is what this is about.