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...
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Kanya Rajagopalan, Gloria Reyes-Ortiz, Sabiha Kazi, Sara Bohn, Juan Palacios, Diana Treu Source Type: research
Early Initiation of Palliative Medicine Consults from the ED Leads to Improved Hospital Quality Metrics
1. Understand the value of consulting palliative medicine teams early when caring for patients with complex medical diseases.2. Understand the utility of palliative medicine resources across different healthcare settings. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Ayesha Khanduri, Anjali Grandhige Source Type: research
Emergency Departments as the Portal of Entry for Inpatient Geriatric Hospice and Palliative Medicine Consults
1. Recognize the Emergency Department as a primary portal of hospital entry for downstream Hospice and Palliative Medicine Consults in Geriatric patients.2. Recognize that one out of eleven geriatric ED patients in this sample received a Hospice and/or Palliative medicine consult during their hospitalization. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Satheesh Gunaga, Abe Al-Hage, Michael Welchans, Alyssa Buchheister, Jessica Corcoran, Kim Meeker, Brooke Buckley, Etu Egbe-Etu, Joseph Miller, Chandana Banerjee Source Type: research
Factors Impacting Serious Illness: A Mixed Methods Case Study of 4 Alabama Health Systems
1. The attendees will be able to describe factors that impact availability of hospital palliative care.2. The attendees will be able to describe environmental factors and hospital characteristics that are common and different across hospitals with and without palliative care. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Amy M. Beasley, Marie A. Bakitas, Nataliya Ivankova, Dio Kavalieratos, James Nicholas Odom, Rodney O. Tucker Source Type: research
Trajectories of Serious Illness Communication During Long-term Acute Care Hospital Admissions (GP151)
1. Recognize five distinct trajectories of serious illness communication among patients admitted to a long-term acute care hospital.2. Discuss the qualitative differences that help to distinguish these serious illness communication trajectories. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Kristin N. Levoy, Rebecca Ashare, Niharika Ganta, Nina O'Connor, Salimah Meghani Source Type: research
