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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

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Kate: It was done in 10 hospitals, 17 ICUs in Atrium Health down in North Carolina. Asking clinicians to document prognosis did not change the primary outcome of hospital length of stay or really any of the secondary outcomes, which I’ll get into. Also the same hospital system? That’s when they got enrolled.

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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

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Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc. And they begin on today’s podcast with one clinical ask: everyone should be a generalist and a specialist. So this is a practical, really basic idea that can be applied to clinical practice.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

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So tiny, tiny, in a hospital bed. How do you do that in clinical practice, in a way that doesn’t take five hours of sitting down with somebody? So when patients express a wish to die, that’s not just something that began in 2016 when legislation came into effect. So incredibly muscular person. Eric: Yeah.