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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

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Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. Nursing home, length of stay, I think it was like back in 2010, at the end of life.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Eric and Alex have featured discussions about complex bioethical concepts around caring for people at the end of life, including voluntarily stopping eating and drinking ( VSED ), and multiple episodes about the ethical issues surrounding medical aid in dying ( MAID ). Alex 00:14 We have a very full house today.

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

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Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. Rehabbed to Death. Joan: Thanks. Ruth: Sure.

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

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Obviously, you should ask about immunization status and whether or not the child has any underlying medical or neurologic problems or developmental delay. In a study from Kim published in Pediatrics in 2010, they looked at 526 children with complex febrile seizures. through a process of shared decision making.

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