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

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These are patients who had a pre-existing chronic disease, very broadly defined. COPD, heart failure, solid oncology, hematologic malignancy, dementia, ALS, interstitial lung disease, several others. It did not change the frequency of palliative care consultation, the timing of such, ICU mortality, or six-month mortality.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

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Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. We got some really special guests with us. If somebody’s dealing with a chronic pain and multiple chronic diseases, they have an opioid use disorder and we get referred that patient to a palliative care clinic is that in our Bailey wick?

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