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Hospice Palliative Care: Palliative Care in CMMI Programs

Hospice News

This article is based on a discussion with Fred Bentley, Managing Director for Medicare Innovation and ATI Advisory, Allison Silvers, Chief of Healthcare Transformation at the Center to Advance Palliative Care and Ryan Klaustermeier, Vice President of Professional Services at Axxess. Hospice News: Excellent.

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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

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In this article, it was availability of hospice services, but we also know availability of ICU services. Liz: Yeah, palliative care teams is exactly one of those institutional factors. And palliative care friendliness was definitely a very important factor to this.

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

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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. And the same nudge, the withdrawal of life support nudge, also decreased the time to comfort care orders. Were these two resources already there?