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Visceral Hyperalgesia in a Pediatric Palliative Care Patient without Severe Neurologic Impairment
1. Describe common causes of feeding intolerance in pediatric patients and understand visceral hyperalgesia as a cause of refractory abdominal symptoms in multiple patient populations.2. Develop an approach to the treatment of visceral hyperalgesia. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Madeline Weber, Dustin Dillon Source Type: research

10 Tips to Know About Creating, Operating, and Maintaining a Palliative Care Unit
1. Participants will be able to familiarize themselves with how a strategy to implement a successful palliative care unit.2. Participants will be able to identify anticipated challenges, obstacles, and barriers when operating a PCU, and how to overcome them. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Lawrence Asprec, Elizabeth Capano, Sawudat DeCoteau Source Type: research

A Case Series Recognizing Terminal Lucidity in Non-Dementia Hospice and Palliative Care Patients
1. Describe the signs and symptoms of terminal lucidity.2. Integrate knowledge of terminal lucidity to guide prognostic expectations and advance care planning counseling. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Kelly Chin, Jessica Chin, Jennifer Tom, Antonio Corona Source Type: research

A Community-Based Nephrology and Palliative Care Partnership to Improve Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease Care
1. Describe how to develop an integrated palliative care approach to advanced CKD care through a community-based partnership.2. Describe the implementation of a community-based collaboration for advanced CKD as a model to apply with other advanced chronic diseases. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Christine Khandelwal, Dwan Kelsey Source Type: research

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Managing an Acute Sickle Cell Exacerbation
1. Recognize patient-related factors in patients with sickle cell disease that would benefit from a multidisciplinary palliative care approach.2. Describe palliative care interventions that may positively impact total pain in a hospitalized patient with sickle cell disease. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Joshua Borris, Paul Noufi Source Type: research

A Survey to Characterize the Palliative Care Needs of All Hospitalized Patients in an Academic Medical Center
1. Participants will reflect on the process by which patients are brought to inpatient consult services ’ attention and will imagine alternative systems that would help identify PC appropriate patients more promptly and proactively.2. Learners will examine the ways in which bias and inequity may affect which patients are referred to subspecialty PC in our current system and compare how interdiscipli nary team members may perceive patients’ PC needs differently. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Joanna Sharpless, Yuika Goto, Laura A. Schoenherr, David L. O'Riordan, Steven Pantilat Source Type: research

A Weekly Multiple-Choice Quiz for Continuing Education in a Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Team
1. Assess the utility of a weekly multiple-choice question in palliative care team education and development.2. Compare interdisciplinary team performance on multiple-choice questions based on learning objective topic. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Wil L. Santivasi, Jennifer H. Gentry, Christopher A. Jones, David J. Casarett Source Type: research

Adapting the Serious Illness Conversation Guide to Crisis Settings: A Qualitative Study
1. Upon successful completion, participants will be able to outline key skills and strategies for communication with patients and their families during crisis settings.2. Upon successful completion, participants will appreciate how the Serious Illness Conversation Guide may be adapted for crisis communication, for potential use in their clinical practice. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Aliza Moledina, Chloe Thabet, Peter Munene, Sarina R. Isenberg, Sydney Ruller, Justin J. Sanders, Daniel Kobewka Source Type: research

Addressing the Challenges of the Goals of Care Discussion with the Conscious, Mechanically Ventilated Patient
1. Using a case-based approach, the learners will self report the ability to better conduct a decisional capacity assessment of a conscious, mechanically ventilated patient , despite the inherent challenges of such factors such as time, communication and an uncertain prognosis.2. Using a case-based approach, learners will be able to self-report the ability to to better conduct a shared-decision making discussion with a conscious, mechanically ventilated patient in making goals of care decisions. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Daniel Swagerty, Robin Rinehart Source Type: research

Advance Care Planning in the Rural Faith Community: An Evidence-based Project Promoting Knowledge and Engagement
1. Utilizing a case-based approach, participants will articulate the process of implementing an evidence-based advance care planning educational intervention in the faith-based community in the underserved rural population.2. Utilizing a case-based approach, participants will describe the impact of a culturally sensitive faith-based community educational intervention on advance care planning knowledge and engagement in the underserved rural population. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Ruth L. Myers, Kristin N. Levoy, Susan Storey Source Type: research

All We Need is a Hospice in Brazil
1. Utilizing an observational, cross-sectional, and multicenter approach, participants will self-report the ability to evaluate major differences in south America public and private hospital service, as an opportunity for improvement and considerations for future practices applications.2. Utilizing quality control, data visualization and comparation, participants will self-report the ability to identify key elements in the emergency service to support the decision-making of implement palliative care. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Carla Roballo Bertelli, Marileise Roberta Antoneli Fonseca, Fernanda Fraga Engelbrecht, Paulo Miguel Ferreira Gon çalves Caruso de Campos, Felipe Thiele Cecílio, Luana Cabrino Aranha, Miguel Moraes Gomes Damasceno Amorim, Renan Gianotto-Oliveira, Lucian Source Type: research

An Evaluation of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Websites
1. Reviewing the currently existing Hospice and Palliative Care Fellowship websites, participants will be able to see what components are necessary to create an excellent website which will encourage applicants to apply to their program.2. Utilizing a comprehensive review, the current Hospice and Palliative Fellowship Program Websites will be evaluated, allowing participants insight into common weaknesses in information presentation on these websites. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Jacob Lahti, Emily Courtois, Thomas Varkey, Nimit Agarwal Source Type: research

Analysis of the First Year of a Non Oncologic Outpatient Palliative Care Practice
1. Describe the patient population served by an outpatient non-oncology palliative care clinic and areas to expand this care.2. Identify measurable outcomes of patient care, including healthcare utilization, metric data, and barriers to care. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Megan Pogue, Holden Caplan, Gillian Love Source Type: research

Bereavement Needs Assessment of a Growing Pediatric Palliative Care Program
1. Participants will be able to identify the impact current bereavement resources have on patients and families treated at our free-standing children's hospital.2. Participants will be able to identify periods during bereavement where resources could be best utilized. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Jantzen Collette, Ashley K. Autrey, Casie James, Annie Vaden Source Type: research

Beyond the Labs: Need for Primary Palliative Medicine Training in an Internal Medicine Residency
1. Understand the need for formalized curriculum for palliative medicine elective.2. Apply skills related to conducting family meetings and being familiar with signs and symptoms at end of life. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Katie Masters, Zeba Anwar Source Type: research