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New York State Passes Law to Raise Hospice, Palliative Care Awareness

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Kathy Hochul has signed a bill designed to expand awareness of advance care planning, hospice, and palliative care. The new law requires the New York State Department of Health to develop a public awareness campaign to promote advance care planning. That must change.”. About 17.4%

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Researchers Uncover Widespread Disparities Affecting Rural Hospice Caregivers

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Lagging supportive services around social determinants of health and limited access to hospice and palliative care are driving disparities among rural family caregivers. Family caregivers in rural areas are more likely to experience social determinants of health that negatively affect the provision of palliative and end of life care.

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

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Jennifer’s study is most widely known for the “kicker” – not only did it improve quality of life, palliative care was associated with a couple months longer survival. . Areej’s study is remarkably novel in that it is, to our knowledge, the first study of palliative care during curative treatment. .

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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

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Similarly Jessica Zitter, an intensivist and palliative care doctor analogized the inevitable clinical momentum toward highly aggressive intensive care in US hospitals as a conveyor belt. At the end we also pay tribute to Randy Curtis, senior author on this paper and mentor to Liz. So Liz, let’s jump into the topic.

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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. Kate: Thank you.