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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

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My voice is nothing special. I am not a board certified. I am not a certified music therapist. I let my boards lapse a few years ago. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicines (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. I think that’s more palliative than me.

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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. And then there’s also some financial benefit for the patient as well if they have to pay for room and board. Like, what does that part look like?

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Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

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This week we’re going on to episode two, which is for me one of the most special episodes we’ve done in GeriPal for a very, very long time. Eric: And in the end, we have a very special part where we actually get a tour of their gardens outside of the hospice unit. The board can do their job. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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

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I know that food and drink gets its own sort of special category in a lot of are thinking, but I think of it as very. Clinicians certified her as terminally ill because of the V said. Hope 48:31 Minimal comfort feeding, massive education, and consider what minimal comfort feeding for even moderate dementia might look like.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

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Because pre-pandemic, right, there was issues with you had to be boarded in the state, right? I would expect that the DEA or the state medical boards would be looking at volumes of prescriptions. In Medicare’s case, they would say, “We like having two doctors certifying that eligibility for hospice.”