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Development of a Bereaved Care Partner Survey to Capture the ALS Supportive Care Experience
1. Understand the modified Delphi process used by a multisite, interdisciplinary group to develop and test a novel bereaved carer survey tool.2. Consider how bereaved carer surveys can be used to assess the quality of care received and identify areas in need of improvement. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Janette Tang, Cathy Lomen-Hoerth, Marinella D. Galea, Elizabeth Lindenberger, Kate Brizzi, Eve Cohen, Judith Long, Sarah Meister, Gregory Merrill, Steve Z. Pantilat, Kara E. Bischoff Source Type: research

Discharge Needs and Perceptions of Patients Receiving Palliative Care – A Qualitative Interview Study
1. Describe common themes elicited by patients and caregivers concerning the patient centered-ness of the hospital discharge process.2. Integrate patient-centered priorities into the discharge process for patients with serious illness receiving palliative care services. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Aaron A. Kuntz, Benjamin Osher, Leena Ambady, Catherine DesRoches Source Type: research

Does Active Case Seeking Using a Novel Prognostic Screening Tool Improve Hospice Transitions?
1. Participants will self-report describing how an electronic medical record-based prognostic screening tool with active outreach to primary teams can increase transition to hospice.2. Participants will be able to analyze how measuring changes in percentage rather than absolute numbers of inpatient mortalities in or out of hospice is a more dynamic and meaningful metric for performance improvement. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: June E. Jeon, Benjamin Fay, Xenia Frisby, Anna Krakowski, Melissa Patterson, Cynthia X. Pan, Robert S. Crupi Source Type: research

Early Impact: Integrating Core Palliative Care Skills into Medical Education
1. Participants will be able to identify three strategies to incorporate palliative care knowledge and skills into medical education.2. Participants will be able to discuss the role of online clinical training modules in filling curricular gaps around serious illness care. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Katie Grogan, Rachael Heitner, Alina Kung, Elizabeth Jurczak Goldsborough, Allison Silvers Source Type: research

Educational Intervention Developing Self-Awareness, Bias Identification Skill in Pediatric Palliative Care Team
1. Understand how self-awareness and bias identification skills impact the quality of palliative care being delivered.2. Engage in a self-reflective exercise that increases self-awareness and bias identification skills. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Kristen Adelman Source Type: research

Empowering Hospital Social Workers with Goals-of-Care Skills Training Using Simulation
1. Participants will be able to learn how to design an effective communication skills training workshop for hospital social workers.2. Participants will be able to review Serious Illness Conversation Guide modified for use by hospital social workers for goals of care discussions with patients. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Nancy McCool, Jennifer Reidy, Shawna Steadman, Vandana Nagpal Source Type: research

End-of-Life Ethics Content in the Ten Residencies Offering Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship
1. Through a review of exam outlines, participants will realize the lack of consistency in the end-of-life ethics content between residencies that lead into HPM fellowship.2. Participants will recognize the relevance of standardizing ethics education across HPM fellowship programs. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Sara W. Youssef, Lauren E. Berninger, Danielle J. Doberman Source Type: research

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

Factors Impacting Patient Access to Prescription Opioids in Serious Illnesses Community Pharmacy Perspectives
1. Characterize factors which may affect patient access to opioids prescribed for serious illnesses from the lens of a community pharmacist.2. Identify approaches for managing barriers to access for opioids prescribed for serious illnesses in the community pharmacy setting. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Lorin Fisher, Bryce Andry, Sara Carr, William Doucette Source Type: research

Getting Ahead of What's Behind: EMR Enhancements Targeting Opioid-Induced Constipation
1. Implement EMR enhancements prompting inpatient providers to consider scheduling bowel care when ordering scheduled opioids for admitted cancer patients on chronic opioid therapy.2. Track changes in use of opioid-constipation reversal medications and constipation-induced complications. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Kimberly L. Pham, Masood Kisana Source Type: research

Honoring Veterans ’ Wishes: Efficacy of an Evidence-Based Shared Decision-Making Tool
1. By the end of the presentation, the learner will identify an evidence-based standardized tool for facilitating goals-of-care discussions.2. By the end of the presentation, the learner will identify a method of evaluating ICU intern/resident knowledge and confidence in facilitating goals of care discussions. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Stephanie Alexander Source Type: research

Impact of an APRN Directed Workflow Change on Outpatient Palliative Care Referral Acceptance Rates
1. Participants will be able to identify and analyze barriers and facilitators to outpatient palliative care referral acceptance that can impact the delivery of outpatient palliative care.2. Participants will be able to evaluate referral workflow processes within outpatient clinics as an opportunity for reflection of current and future practice application in improving communication and education with referred patients. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Stefanie Rashti, Deborah Meyers, Maria Fazio, Rebecca Bank Source Type: research

Impact of an Educational Deprescribing Intervention on Provider Confidence and Polypharmacy in the Nursing Home
1. To gain knowledge about delivering provider education for internal palliative care programs focused on primary palliative care, polypharmacy and deprescribing.2. To review the outcomes of this quality improvement project, including polypharmacy rate, provider confidence and knowledge, and experiences with deprescribing. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Julianne Murthi, Molly Langford, Lisa Abdallah Source Type: research

Improving Pediatric Residency End-Of-Life Education: A Quality Improvement Approach
1. Participants will be able to understand that a quality improvement model is an effective method for developing graduate medical education curricula for end-of-life care.2. Participants will be able to recognize the lack of pediatric resident physician education in end-of-life care. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Kaitlin Spratt, Daniel S. Cirotski, Jaxon Vallely, Ami Mehta Source Type: research

Improving Pediatric Residents ’ Comfort and Facility with End-of-Life Care with a Just-In-Time Online Module
1. Participants will be able to learn how a just-in-time module can be constructed to address both resident needs and palliative care teaching goals.2. Participants will be able to describe different ways in which a just-in-time module can improve residents ’ experience with the provision of end-of-life care. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Ryan Jenkins, Andrea Nicholson, Emily P. Ernest, Kaitlyn Foreman, Kate Cicozi, Lisa H. Humphrey Source Type: research