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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

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Eric and I are joined today on this podcast by Anne Kelly palliative care social worker to discuss these issues with Liz. Alex: And joining us as she has many times, Anne Kelly is a social worker at the San Francisco VA. Liz: Yeah, palliative care teams is exactly one of those institutional factors.

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

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Asking clinicians whether they had offered the option of withdrawal of life support and comfort-focused care also did not change length of stay, but did increase the discharges to hospice, odds greater than two-fold, whether it was done alone or in combination with the prognostication nudge. Were these two resources already there?