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Early palliative care fails to improve QOL in advanced heart failure
Publish date: August 3, 2020
“My first reaction is disappointment. We had hoped to see the ENABLE program, which had been successful in cancer, translate to the heart failure setting.”
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Psychiatry trainees drive COVID-19 palliative care in New York
Publish date: July 21, 2020
The team managed 16 cases a day during the peak of New York's COVID-19 outbreak, operating on a rotating schedule of one to three shifts weekly.
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With life in the balance, a pediatric palliative care program expands its work to adults
Publish date: May 8, 2020
“It brings up feelings like I had after 9/11 – a unified approach to surviving this as people, as a community, the idea that ‘we will get through this,’ ” said Dr. Frederick J. Kaskel.
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Call for volunteers for palliative care in COVID-19
Publish date: April 16, 2020
NYC Health + Hospitals needs volunteers trained in palliative care to help patients remotely via telemedicine.
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Experts bring clarity to end of life difficulties
Publish date: December 5, 2019
Confusing situations sometimes arise when treating patients near the end of their lives.
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Storytelling tool can assist elderly in the ICU
Publish date: November 12, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO – A graphic-based framework tool helps track best-and worst-case scenarios for elderly patients in the ICU.
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Early palliative care consult decreases in-hospital mortality
Publish date: October 21, 2019
NEW ORLEANS – More discharges to hospice, and more health care surrogates chosen, when palliative care consultation occurs within 24 hours of ICU admission
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Palliative care programs continue growth in U.S. hospitals
Publish date: September 27, 2019
Almost three-quarters of hospitals have a program, but “geography is destiny” for patients.
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More Medicare beneficiaries receiving hospice care services than in previous years
Publish date: April 16, 2019
For patients with Medicare Fee-for-Service and Medicare Advantage, what are the trends regarding where they die and the type of health care received around the time of death?
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Advance care planning codes not being used
Publish date: March 14, 2019
Few physicians are taking advantage of Medicare payment codes that reimburse them for discussing end-of-life planning with patients.
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