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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

Obviously, I don’t think that symptom monitoring is the same as you wonderful people coming in and taking care of patients and their families. But I think thinking about combined models of care, like can we use palliative care resources if we’re monitoring patient symptoms?

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

GeriPal

We were really interested in the gap that exists after patients leave the ED or an observation status and go home, so what we did is we randomized patients, it was patient-level randomization, to either nurse-led telephonic care for six months, or specialty outpatient palliative care for six months. Was this the same?