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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

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Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. We address: Why is caring for patients with this overlap so hard? Sach Kale set up an outpatient clinic focused on substance use disorder for patients with cancer. Why am I having difficulty with this patient?

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

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What we did was ask clinicians earlier in the ICU stay for very sick patients to document prognosis, and for those who they thought would survive, to document six-month functional prognosis. Eric: And who are the patients including in this trial, again? Kate: These are very sick patients. And that’s it. Kate: Sure.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice. Nursing homes are subsidized by their Medicare, by their rehab patients. Once a nursing home gets a bad reputation and they can’t attract the rehab patients anymore, they’re in big trouble. ” Ruth: And the payment mechanism has to work.