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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

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Going back to when I was shopping this idea around the health systems in 2012, we landed on the stepped-wedge design because no one was… I said before you couldn’t randomize people to get palliative care or not, specifically. Eric: And this was done pre-COVID, right? Scott: This was, yes. This was a lifetime’s worth of work.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

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There’s an organization that I took my training from, which began, I want to say, in 2012. Our folks all die of congestive heart failure and dementia, even oncology diagnoses with new immunotherapies like the old days. Jane: We’re following behind the birth doula movement. It’s been around for a while.

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