Hospice News
MAY 10, 2024
AccentCare’s augmented reality (AR) hospice program has led to improved patient satisfaction and symptom management, along with benefits for staff. We’ve seen this AR program induce positive emotions for patients,” Ostashen told Hospice News. The hospice and home health provider offers care in 31 states.
Hospice News
MARCH 4, 2024
In case you missed it, Hospice News has launched a new specialty publication for palliative care professionals. Providing education and fostering health literacy among the seriously ill, their families and surrogate decision makers is crucial to ensuring a positive patient experience in hospice care.
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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast
OCTOBER 15, 2018
This national audit aimed to determine national transfusion practice in hospices and compare this against National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and British Society of Haematology guidelines to develop recommendations to improve practice.
GeriPal
JANUARY 18, 2024
Devon, I see that you have an R21 to study concurrent prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines, which are like the second most common thing I prescribe in combination after opioids and laxatives for people in hospice. And so, for-profit hospices, for-profit methadone clinics pop up everywhere, and their care is pretty variable.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Emily: Looks like informed decision making around family involvement. And when you reframe the family involvement as a medical decision or a medical intervention, then the informed consent or informed refusal makes a lot of sense as a framing for that. Eric: Yeah. I love the idea of both the context. Why is it important?
GeriPal
MARCH 9, 2023
And we chose that in part because that will just help with the scientific question of the blinding, but there’s data in how we can use oral ketamine in patients with cancer who are in hospice, and they do have some benefit in maybe mood or anxiety that is at least shortly lived, if not lasts more than a week or so.
Pallimed
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
Thus, we envision creating an ethics-based, education-focused informed consent process that allows patients to weigh treatment risks versus potential benefits collaboratively to enhance opioid prescribing safety (165). Presented on February 10, 2022, for the Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care (Virtual Conference).
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