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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

GeriPal

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. And palliative care friendliness was definitely a very important factor to this.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

So I think there’s definitely overlap with that, but I think helping patients cope, make priorities, think through their goals and values early and along the illness course does facilitate and enable better end of life decision making, including advanced care planning. And I do think that is the way of the future.

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

GeriPal

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?