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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 the reason why our palliative care team had those coping skills, which we often traditionally think is more on the purview of a psychologist, is just because of Mass General being a general hospital, palliative care grew up with a very close and collaborative relationship with psychiatry and psychology.

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

GeriPal

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. Eric: We just did a podcast on creating palliative care consults. Were these two resources already there? Was this the same?