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Predictive Analytics ‘Gives Hospices a Lens’ into Quality, Compliance

Hospice News

Hospices are leveraging predictive analytics to get a clearer picture of their performance amid regulatory pressures. Hospices have relied on data to enhances their ability to assess the quality and quantity of bedside care delivered during a patients’ final days.

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Study: Machine Learning Prompts Earlier Advance Care Planning, Reduces High-Cost Care

Hospice News

These cancer patients showed increased hospice enrollment and length of stay, fewer occurrences of inpatient deaths, less intensive care unit use within the last 30 days of life, and reduced use of systemic therapy two weeks before death (such as chemotherapy or inhibitor therapy). of the cancer descendents studied. Minnesota-based St.

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What Is The Goal Of Hospice?

Seasons Hospice

This is where hospice care can step in and help you and your loved ones on this journey. Let’s look at what hospice care is and how it can help. What Is Hospice Care? Hospices provide palliative care that focuses on improving the quality of life for those with serious illnesses. How Did Hospice Care Start?

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Advanced Pain Management in Cancer: Janet Abrahm

GeriPal

We didn’t have pain as a fifth vital sign then. Particularly with patients in our hospice unit who are often not on IV fluids, getting dehydrated, getting ever-escalating doses of IV Dilaudid. Hypnosis: uses and how to get training via the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. Janet, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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Episode 38: LWH Q&A #1

Living With Hospice

In this episode of Living With Hospice, Mitch makes good on a promise made during the first episode to answer questions that readers have submitted over time. Transcript: Welcome to another episode of Living With Hospice. Okay, another sign to look for is a change in their vital signs. That would be awesome.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

They were not touching the patient, and they were more likely to be looking at the nurse or the vital signs tracing than the patient or the family member. There’s a vital signs tracing, the patient’s wearing a mask. Of course, the doctors know they’re in simulation, they signed up for it.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

And I wonder as you think about that and as you think about pain being a vital sign, every shift in the hospital people are asking if they’re having pain, we’re going in there asking people, “Are you hurting? On today’s podcast we welcome back Haider Warraich to talk about pain. Haider: That was a great story.

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