Hospice and Palliative Care: The Year in Review 2014

by Christian Sinclair, MD, FAAHPMLooking back on 2014, it seemed like hospice and palliative care issues were constantly in the news. But then again, I may be standing in the single loudest position in the echo chamber of palliative care. Even with the awareness of that bias, it is clear to me that we had many significant events this year in our field that will really influence where we go in 2015 and beyond. (Although if you look at the graph below hospice and palliative care are steady to declining in percentage of search on Google.)We have never done a formal year in review here at Pallimed, and now that we are finally doing one, I’m sorry that I don’t have the past years to reflect back upon. Big shout out to Kathy Brandt for also doing a year-end review on her fantastic site the kb group (if you have not yet subscribed, you should.) She brought up a few ideas I had not had considered myself. CAPC also published a year in review worth a look. In addition, last week at #hpm chat, Dr. Meredith MacMartin hosted on just this topic. There was a lot of great discussion and some new topics were brought up that I was not aware of.So what were the big events of 2014 for hospice and palliative care? (in no particular order and with categories I just made up)And if you want to have a bit of fun with us, please join us in a poll to pick the top news stories of the year for hospice and palliative care.In the media spotlightBrittany Maynard and the national conversation abou...
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