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

GeriPal

What we did was ask clinicians earlier in the ICU stay for very sick patients to document prognosis, and for those who they thought would survive, to document six-month functional prognosis. That’s a pretty big palliative care study. Eric: We just did a podcast on creating palliative care consults.

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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

GeriPal

Liz: Yeah, palliative care teams is exactly one of those institutional factors. 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.

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

GeriPal

So if I remember that study correctly, so it was a randomized control trial that was published in the New England Journal of palliative care plus usual care, versus just usual oncological care. And the kicker was they lived, what, two to three months longer? Jennifer: Yep. Eric: So I got another question.