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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral? If we move away from clinician referrals as the means by which people get access, how do we keep the clinicians engaged, and not enraged? Should we just use the referrals, whatever’s coming into us, whoever, whatever clinician decides. By diagnosis?

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

Some more assessment also potentially some interventional around total pain, including spiritual suffering that actually may worsen physical pain. Did your intervention Lexy actually have any effect on utilization, which again, somewhat argue is the reason that services palliative care get funded? So there is this overlap. Alex: Yeah.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. It’s not just about physical symptom management.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

And it was really good for my mental and physicalPhysical health, obviously, but mental health really. So one that the primary outcome was supposed to be documentation, which it improved documentation, it wasn’t powered to actually look at any utilization or hard outcomes. Get the hospice referral.

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

GeriPal

And so I’m not sure if this is true for Joe or for Brooke, but even before the pandemic in our practice here, we saw somewhere around 40 to 50% of our patients via telemedicine anyway, because we have a catchment area of patients who live very far away, many of whom have a lot of physical disability and other limitations to coming in person.