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

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These results appeared in a 2019 New England Journal of Medicine study titled “Rehabbed to Death.” In the study, researchers present the case of an independent 87-year-old woman with moderate dementia admitted to the hospital with pneumonia.

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How Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Built an Award-Winning Palliative Program

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In 2019, leaders set up a collaborative with researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and the Bloomberg School of Public Health to diversify patient-care perspectives. Now we’re trying to understand how to integrate that into our training and in our workflow so that we’re thinking about that,” he said.

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Palliative Care Yield Cost Savings Lymphoma Patients, But Racial Disparities Exist

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Patients who underwent palliative care and were hospitalized did not see significant differences in lengths of stay than others, but did see substantial cost savings, according to research presented at the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition. Of those 5,464 had received palliative care.

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U.S. Patients Have Unequal Access to Palliative Care

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The findings were presented at the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Quality Care Symposium in Boston. Seriously ill patients are more likely to receive palliative care if they have more providers in their vicinity. The researchers then looked at data showing whether or not the patients received palliative treatments.

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World Hospice and Palliative Care Day Raises Global Awareness

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population has little to no understanding of what palliative care is, including many clinicians in a position to refer patients and their families, according to a 2019 study in the Journal of Palliative Medicine. Globally, the need for hospice and palliative care has been growing faster than people can access them.

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VA Study Finds 95% Increase in Palliative Care Utilization When Patients Have Access to Social Workers

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Researchers analyzed records for 43,200 veterans with prior hospitalization who had received primary care at a VA site between October 2016 and September 2019. Patients are more likely to receive palliative care if they can access social workers through their primary care providers, Veterans Health Administration (VA) research has found.

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Palliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Betty Ferrell about ELNEC

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We started writing this paper in 2019 actually. I feel like there are similar features of how it presents for both patients and providers when they’re dealing with this issue and that they can’t even put a label on too. We talk today with Betty Ferrell, who has been a nurse for 47 years, and is the founder and PI of ELNEC.