Enhancing Patient-Centered Surgical Care With Pre-operative Frailty Screening and Palliative Medicine Consults

1. Participants will be able to apply knowledge on palliative medicine integration with surgical decision making in frail patients in clinical practice, thus ensuring that elective surgical procedures are aligned with goals of patient with potential benefit of reducing mortality due to surgical complications in the frail.2. Upon successful completion, participants will be able to employ similar practices in their respective hospital systems, and potentially conduct further quality improvement research on long term benefits of integration of palliative medicine with surgical decision making in the frail as part of processes to reduce risk in these patients.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Source Type: research