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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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While we like to think about how our goals and preferences will influence what that life looks like, including whether you will get potentially burdensome interventions, your fate is probably influenced more by factors like where you live and what nursing home you happen to end up in. . It improves symptom management. Ruth: Thank you.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

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She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. How many patients is my hospice nurse case manager responsible for on any given day? Management, it’s hard. Eric: Alex, we have some great guests with us today. Who sees you?

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. For residents and nurse practitioners, primary outcome was the quality of communication. Corita 10:59 No, it was rather simple. No, no, no. It was very simple. Now it was a pragmatic trial. Basically vital talk.