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Implementing an End of Life Curriculum in a National Cohort of Emergency Medical Services Clinicians
1. Participants will better comprehend EMS clinician prior experience, confidence and subject knowledge caring for and communicating for patients near the end of life.2. Participants will learn strategies on how to target clinical and communication skills training for EMS clinicians. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Amelia Breyre, David H. Wang, Charles Dunn, Justin K. Brooten, Brian Gacioch, Michael Taigman, Zili He Source Type: research

Inequities in End-of-Life Healthcare for Patients with Advanced Cancer and Limited English Proficiency
1. Attendees will be able to identify important differences in end-of-life healthcare and palliative care utilization between decedents with advanced cancer and limited English proficiency and those with English proficiency.2. Attendees will be able to identify differences in healthcare utilization for specific populations with limited English proficiency and identify population-specific opportunities to improve end-of-life healthcare utilization. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Alina Ferguson, Rashmi K. Sharma Source Type: research

National Emergency Department Utilization by Patients with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias
1. Participants will be able to describe national patterns in dementia patients ’ emergency department utilization.2. Participants will be able to describe how dementia patients' prior site of residence / care appears to be associated with their subsequent ED utilization and costs. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Jason K. Bowman, James A. Tulsky, Christine S. Ritchie, Joan M. Teno Source Type: research

Natural Language Processing Identifies Goals of Care Documentation in Electronic Health Records
1. Describe the use of natural language processing (NLP) to identify elements of goals of care (GOC) documentation from electronic health records.2. Characterize NLP-identified GOC documentation for patients with ovarian cancer. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Hillarie E. Joehl, Patricia Friend Source Type: research

Nursing Home Resident Palliative Care Referral Criteria: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
1. Enhance the learner's knowledge of palliative care referral criteria for nursing home residents.2. Describe priority criteria for palliative care specialist consultation for nursing home residents. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Connie S. Cole, C. Robert Bennet, Joan G. Carpenter, Regina M. Fink, Amy L. Jackson, Kathleen Unroe, Cari Levy Source Type: research

Palliative Care Consultations for Older Adult Hospitalized with Cancer at the End of Life
1. Participants will be able to self-report the ability to evaluate whether an older patient with cancer meets various end-of-life outcomes.2. Participants will be able to self-report the ability to assess discrepancies in end of life outcomes for older patients with cancer between non-minority and minority groups. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Kian Parsa, Evelyn Elias, Teja Ganta, Andre Khazak, Tianxiang Sheng, Cardinale B. Smith Source Type: research

Palliative Care Provider Attitudes Toward Psychedelics: A Survey in an Integrated Health System
1. Participants will be able to analyze the current attitudes palliative care providers have toward psychedelic and psychedelic-assisted therapies and join in on the discussion of new modalities that show potential for treating existential distress.2. Utilizing an up-to-date review of psychedelic and psychedelic-assisted therapies as modalities for treating existential distress, participants will investigate the legal and ethical implications of treatments and determine whether they would potentially use them in their practice (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: John Le, Dov Shalman Source Type: research

Patient and Facility Characteristics Associated with Early Mortality After Interhospital Transfer
1. Describe key population characteristics and disparities associated with early mortality after transfer in urban and rural populations.2. Identify key gaps in care leading to early mortality after transfer and lending themselves to potential palliative care intervention. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Rachel Hadler, Dio Kavalieratos, Stephanie Mueller Source Type: research

Patient-Oncologist Conversations: A Qualitative Analysis of Figurative Language Use
1. Define figurative language, such as metaphor and analogy, and its role in serious illness communication.2. Understand figurative language use during patient-oncologist outpatient encounters and describe the association of figurative language use with sociodemographic characteristics of patients with advanced cancer. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Nicholas Buehler, Jeannys F. Nnemnbeng, Ksenia Gorbenko, Cardinale B. Smith, Laura P. Gelfman, Julia Frydman Source Type: research

Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Goals of Care Conversations with Hospitalized Patients after Severe Stroke
1. Understand the prevalence, associated predictors, interventions, and outcomes of having a GOCC prior to a PEG placement.2. Summarize the characteristics of persons involved in the first PEG-GOCC. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Stephanie L. Bartlett, Veronica Kassab, Asia Madayag, Lynn E. DCruz, Evan Templeton, Amber R. Comer Source Type: research

Pilot of a Telehealth Hospice Transition Intervention for Children and Young Adults with Cancer
1. Participants will be able to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a hospice telehealth home-based intervention for pediatric and young adult patients with cancer at the end of life using data obtained from the Technology Acceptable Model 2 survey.2. Participants will be able to assess the self-reported partnership, collaboration, and care coordination between the patient's hospice and hospital providers using the Assessment of Interprofessional Team Collaboration Scale II survey. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Nicholas DeGroote, Ebonee N. Harris, Shaheen Rana, Anna Lange, Karen Wasilewski-Masker, James L. Klosky, Katharine E. Brock Source Type: research

Primary Mental Health Competencies for Palliative Medicine Physicians: A Consensus-Prioritized List
1. List 5 mental health competencies in which they already have expertise.2. Identify 2 potential sources for further learning when a physician has a relative lack of expertise in a mental health competency (i.e. a licensed clinical social worker on their existing clinical team, journal articles in the palliative medicine or mental health literature, a consult-liaison psychiatrist with shared patient populations, etc). (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Lisa Podgurski, Keri O. Brenner, Danielle Chammas, Neha Goyal, Maria Lapid, Sue E. Morris, William F. Pirl, Leah B. Rosenberg, Bridget Sumser, Ben Thompson, Daniel Shalev Source Type: research

Reclaiming Our Ancestral Wisdom: Decolonizing Approaches to Palliative Care
1. State 3 new perspectives and/or tools for easing existential suffering that can be included in their practice.2. Explain the importance of decolonizing palliative care by including Indigenous science and traditional knowledge into the field to promote equity and inclusion. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: B. Elias Snyder Source Type: research

Reconsidering the Hospice Certificate of Terminal Illness Requirements and Advanced Practice Providers
1. Discuss the implications and barriers of the rules and regulations of the Hospice Certificate of Terminal Illness on timely, equitable access to Hospice.2. Describe how the limits of the Hospice Certificate of Terminal Illness affect goal concordant care for patients, clinician satisfaction, and fragmented care. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Constance Dahlin, Phyllis Whitehead, Deborah I. Wolff Baker, Ron Billano Ordona, Beverly Lang, Jeannette (Jeannie) Meyer Source Type: research

Retraumatization When an Adult Child Cares for the Parent Who Harmed Them Through Serious Illness or the End of Life
1. Self-report the ability to summarize the retraumatization experience adult children may have when caring for the parent who harmed them through serious illness or the end of life.2. Self-report the ability to implement a trauma-informed approach to support adult child caregivers with a history of childhood harm at the hand of a parent. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Jaime Goldberg, Jooyoung Kong Source Type: research