Financial Toxicity: The Hidden Side Effect of Cancer
1. Utilizing data and patient stories, participants will demonstrate understanding of financial toxicity, including direct and indirect costs, and how it affects our patients' quality of life and health outcomes.2. Utilizing patient stories as well as the experience of a lawyer who founded a legal care non-profit, participants will employ tools to assess for financial toxicity and become empowered to increase their collaboration with lawyers and medical-legal partne (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Jennifer Kuyava, Lindy Yokanovich Source Type: research
A Feasibility Study Examining Storytelling Through Music with Bereaved Parents of Children with Cancer (RP212)
1. Participants will be able to demonstrate knowledge about the gaps in parental bereavement support.2. Participants will be able to describe the feasibility and process of implementing a community-based expressive arts bereavement intervention. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Carolyn Phillips, Sue E. Morris, Erin M. Rodriguez, Heather Woods, Megan Hebdon, Eunju Choi, Brandon Morgan, Jason Morris, Tyler Jorgensen, Dona Ravandi, Divyangna Moorjani, Shelli Kesler, Debra Umberson Source Type: research
A Natural Language Processing Study to Assess Quality of End-of-Life Care for Children with Cancer (RP215)
1. Participants will demonstrate a greater understanding of rule-based natural language processing as a method to assess palliative and end-of-life care quality.2. Participants will broadly explore how to apply the rule-based natural language processing technology to serious illness research. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Meghan E. Lindsay, Sophia De Oliveira, Drew Ward, Kate Sciacca, Charlotta Lindvall, Prasanna J. Ananth Source Type: research
A Navigator-Delivered Model to Enhance Early Palliative Care Access for Women of Color with Advanced Breast Cancer (RP314)
1. Identify key barriers to palliative care access for women of color with advanced breast cancer.2. Discuss the importance of community linkage and trust in overcoming barriers to early palliatve care. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Melissa B. Mazor, Dolores Moorehead, Jenny Lin, Cardinale B. Smith, James Nicholas Odom Source Type: research
Association between Specialist Palliative Care Use and End-of-Life Care in Patients with Metastatic Cancer (RP321)
1. Understand challenges in measuring specialist palliative care use in population-level data.2. Understand evidence for specialist palliative care in improving quality metrics for end-of-life care in cancer care. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: May Hua, Ling Guo, Caleb Ing, Deven Lackraj, Shuang Wang, R. Sean Morrison Source Type: research
Care for Patients with Substance Use: A Qualitative Study of Oncology Team Experiences and the Role of Palliative Care (RP106)
1. Illustrate challenges oncology teams may face when providing care for patients with concurrent substance use disorder and cancer2. Improve understanding of gaps in cancer care that may be addressed with collaboration between palliative care and oncology care teams to treat patients with substan ce use disorders to improve comprehensive cancer treatment for this patient population. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Sachin Kale, Jennifer Eramo, Laura Rush, Sadie Chen, Mireille Bitangacha, Elizabeth Mayers, AnnScheck McAlearney, Amanda V. Gusovsky Source Type: research
Doing Instead, Flexing to Accommodate, and Guarding the Future: Quality of Life During Childhood Cancer Treatment (RP201)
1. After engaging with the research presentation, participants will apply and further refine the concepts of "doing instead," "flexing to accommodate," and "imagined future person," in research with children with cancer and other seriously ill children receiving disease-modifying treatments that may threaten social isolation and changes to other identity-forming/affirming activities.2. During and after engaging with the research presentation, participants will critically consider strengths and weaknesses of the employed research methods (data generation via semi-structured interviews, theore tical sampling, and use of...
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Alexandra Merz, Katharine E. Brock, Sarah E. Stevens, Anna C. Revette, Joanne Wolfe, Angela M. Feraco Source Type: research
Exploring the Content of Discussions on Pain During Ambulatory Oncologist –Patient Encounters (RP113)
1. To describe pain communication practices among oncologists and patients with advanced cancer.2. To describe the application of REDES and SOCRATES model to pain communication assessment. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Pakhi Goel, Marium Rashid, Nihal E. Mohamed, Jessica Ma, Kathryn I. Pollak, Cardinale B. Smith Source Type: research
Factors Modifying Decision-Making at Diagnosis of Advanced Childhood Cancer in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (RP223)
1. Participants will be able to describe challenges physicians practicing in low-and middle-income countries face, when making treatment decisions for children presenting with advanced cancer, as well as the factors that modify treatment recommendations.2. Participants will be able to suggest inte rventions or future studies that will help support physicians and other decision-makers in low-and middle-income countries when determining treatment plans for children presenting with advanced cancer. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Marta Salek, Alaina Rule, Jamie Zeal, Shoshana Mehler, Joanne Canedo, Essy Maradiege Chirinos, Mae Concepcion J. Concepcion J. Dolendo, Diego Figueredo, Sanjeeva Gunasekera, Roman Kizyma, Hoa Thi Kim Nguyen, Irene Nzamu, Muhammad Rafie Raza, Khilola Rusta Source Type: research
Feasibility of Systematic Social Needs Screening Among Families of Children with Advanced Cancer (RP217)
1. Understand the relationship between household material hardship, social needs, and social determinants of health.2. Describe the prevalence of household material hardship among families of children with advanced cancer care. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Puja J. Umaretiya, Emily Jones, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Ariana Valenzuela, Rahela Aziz-Bose, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona Source Type: research
Mortality and function following widowhood among older adults with dementia, cancer, and organ failure (RP222)
1. Determine the impact of widowhood on function and mortality among older adults with dementia.2. Determine the impact of widowhood on function and mortality among older adults with cancer and organ failure. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Rebecca Rodin, Alexander Smith, Edie Espejo, John Boscardin, Lauren Hunt, Katherine Ornstein, R. Sean Morrison Source Type: research
Oncologists Endorse Divergent ‘Best Practices’ for Disclosing Prognosis in Advanced Pediatric Cancer (RP124)
1. Describe (and self-reflect on) how clinicians may make assumptions about what prognostic information patients/families want to hear and how they want to hear it, as well as how clinicians may lack comfort in eliciting these preferences directly from patients/families.2. Recognize a deficit in s takeholder-driven guidance to encourage and support clinicians in provision of person-centered, timely prognostic communication in advanced childhood cancer and other pediatric serious illnesses. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Erica C. Kaye, Harmony Farner, Shoshana Mehler, Nidhi Mali, Kelly Bien, Justin N. Baker, Jennifer Mack Source Type: research
Prevalence and Characteristics of Substance Misuse Among U.S. Cancer Survivors (RP103)
1. Participants will be able to identify subpopulations of cancer survivors (based on cancer type) that have a high prevalence of substance misuse.2. Participants will be able to identify substances that are commonly misused among cancer survivors. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Devon Check, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Oyomoare L. Osazuwa-Peters, Andrea Des Marais, Jessica Merlin Source Type: research
Processes Through Which Palliative Care Social Workers May Improve Goal-Concordant Care (RP104)
1. Upon successful completion, participants will report the ability to articulate the shared experience of hospitalized older adults with cancer and their caregivers after discharge to a skilled nursing facility and model communication techniques of palliative care social workers to improve quality of care and decision-making near the end of life.2. Participants will be able to analyze how the unique training of palliative care social workers in family and systems level theory ideally positions them to address unmet palliative care needs of patients discharged to SNFs and their caregivers, e specially when communicati...
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Sarguni Singh, Ashley Dafoe, Dana Lahoff, Laurel Tropeano, Bree Owens, Erin Nielsen, John Cagle, Hillary D. Lum, Brooke Dorsey Holliman, Stacy M. Fischer Source Type: research
Sociodemographic and Healthcare Factors Associated with Preserved Social Functioning in Cancer-Bereaved (RP211)
1. Identify parental sociodemographic and child treatment and end-of-life factors associated with preserved parental social functioning, a key outcome in early bereavement.2. Recognize elements of supportive interventions that may augment early bereavement social functioning in parents of children who died from cancer. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Jennifer M. Snaman, Li Chen, Emanuele Mazzola, Abby R. Rosenberg, Justin N. Baker, Joanne Wolfe Source Type: research
