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

GeriPal

David: People with these illnesses suffer from persistent symptoms, poor quality of life, depression, anxiety, despite all the great things we do and all our colleagues in those specialties and in primary care and geriatrics. David: We used the VA specific care assessment needs score, which- Eric: Oh, the CAN score. David: Yeah.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

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So what we found is up to 30% of people would call 911 again for a fall, and of those calls, some people became very high-utilizers and so they would call 911 over and over again. I think once someone becomes kind of a high-utilizer, it’s a slippery slope. I had no idea that people were calling 911 that much sometimes.

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

And palliative care was as a program was just growing at Penn moving from just consult hospice to actually having a team when I was training. I have never myself called a palliative care consult as a trainee because we didn’t have one. And I practiced both on the palliative care consult team and in the ICU.

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

GeriPal

And the same nudge, the withdrawal of life support nudge, also decreased the time to comfort care orders. But importantly, it did not change the frequency of comfort care orders. It did not change the frequency of palliative care consultation, the timing of such, ICU mortality, or six-month mortality.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

In recent years, pressures to decrease hospital length of stay and increase throughput, the rate at which patients are moved in and out of the system has contributed to a culture in many acute care environments where physical therapy functions primarily as a consultation service for discharge planning. Lynn: Oh, that’s cool.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

But so if someone got admitted, palliative care could see them the next day. I think that study was really important, especially I think the message that I give people is you can do something as simple as calling a consultation and improve quality of life months later. Eric 08:45 Why did you choose that as a primary outcome?

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Anatomy of a Healthy Plate- Guest Blogger Rebecca Gray

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

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