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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme. I think once someone becomes kind of a high-utilizer, it’s a slippery slope. Katie: Awesome.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 114

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JANUARY 25, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And so, three years of seeing over and over people having really difficult end of life experiences in the ICU, not being able to advocate for themselves, a lot of trauma for their families, I just thought, we have to do better than this. There has to be more than this.

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Patient-Centered Illness IT Patients 122

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APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. Practice-PC is an intentionally interprofessional and cutting edge year-long group continuing education course in palliative care for working professionals from all disciplines, in the Bay Area. LaVera: Yes.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 99

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JUNE 5, 2025

JAGS 2024 Nursing Home Palliative Care Referral Process, Barriers, and Proposed Solutions: A Qualitative Study. Kathleen 03:47 I think any of us who’ve spent any time in nursing homes have spent time working in a nursing home setting, have visited, had family members in nursing homes and looked around and seen the population there.

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And, of course, this is what families of patients undergoing palliative care go through. Eric: Utilization, utilization, utilization. Subscribers will claim MOC credit by completing an evaluation with self-reflection questions. Eric: Yeah.

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Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 120

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. There was a difference, though, in hospice utilization, right? So I don’t know how clinically meaningful that week difference was to families.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125