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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

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Summary Transcript Summary The comprehensive geriatric assessment is one of the cornerstones of geriatrics. But does the geriatric assessment do anything? Evidence has been mounting about the importance of the geriatric assessment for older adults with cancer, the subject of today’s podcast. Precision medicine?

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

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Remedying this dilemma could involve providing nursing teams with more information about the patients in general, including their medical diagnoses and past patterns of health care utilization, Singh said. These results appeared in a 2019 New England Journal of Medicine study titled “Rehabbed to Death.”

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Obstacles and Opportunities for Palliative Care in the ICU

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A growing body of research touts the benefits of palliative care for patients, families, and even providers. However, when evaluated through randomized clinical trials, the results tend to lean toward mediocre. I think the measures we have, it’s not so much that they’re wrong, but they certainly are imprecise,” Dr. Kathleen M.

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Palliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Betty Ferrell about ELNEC

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It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. I mean, hearkening back to the Uncanny Valley, we would like it if people were machines and we just gave them information and they spat out a response. Josh, welcome back to GeriPal.

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HSPN Palliative Care: Fireside Chat with Contessa and Netsmart

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Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. This article is based on a discussion with Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart and Nikki Davis, Vice President of Palliative Care Programs at Contessa Health.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

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It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. All hands go up. All hands go down.

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Key Research Trends: State CON Laws, Dementia Patient Trajectories Reshaping Hospice

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Having data around CON regulations and their impacts can help inform lawmakers as they develop policies to guard against fraud, waste and abuse, according to recent researchers. “We know that addressing issues related to quality of hospice care is timely and critical to state (and also federal) lawmakers,” Cagle told Hospice News in an email.

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