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

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Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. It did not change the frequency of palliative care consultation, the timing of such, ICU mortality, or six-month mortality.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. If they didn’t do it all by themselves, they talked to the family and it was a conversation, but also there wasn’t a whole lot that doctors can do then. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

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I love this series of articles because each presents a component of a practical, patient-centered approach to patient-surgeon communication and decision making, and language surgeons (and surgical trainees) can start using in their next patient visit. And that’s how we connected. You mentioned this term, fix-it.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

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Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They may have few family members, live alone. You just knew it? Thomas: Yeah, yeah.

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

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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. Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care.

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

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The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Whereas the home with the low rate of feeding tube use involved families in decision making. Whereas the high-intensity nursing homes tended not to have a process or did not include families. There was a hesitancy to engage black families.

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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

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That put me in the emergency room. I actually do some consulting work with a company called the Farmstand that’s based in a community called the Villages in Florida. Eloise 36:49 I would first present to you what I think your options are. But you really should be looking at family history, personal history.

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