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Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Navigating Outpatient Opioid Prescribing
Practical guidance for palliative care clinicians navigating safe and effective opioid prescribing in the outpatient setting.
Evaluating the Performance of Large Language Models on Palliative Care Test Questions
Study finds that two AI models answered the majority of palliative care knowledge questions correctly, generating answers that clinician educators rated more highly than existing answer key.
A Decade of Virtual Palliative Care Skills Training by CAPC
An article in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management highlights how CAPC has scaled virtual clinical skills training to more than 160,000 clinicians over the past decade.
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Impact of Virtual vs. In-Person Palliative Care on Symptom Burden
Study finds patients receiving a mix of in-person and virtual palliative care visits had the greatest reduction in symptom burden, compared to in-person or virtual care alone.
Palliative Care Awareness and Misconceptions by Sexual Orientation
Study finds adults who identify as lesbian, gay, and bisexual have higher palliative care awareness than heterosexual adults with no difference in misconceptions between groups.
Things We Do for No Reason: Standing at the Bedside
A commentary in the Journal of Hospital Medicine discusses how sitting at the bedside improves physician-patient communication among hospitalists.
Pathways to Advance Targeted and Helpful Serious Illness Conversations
Combining clinician and patient nudges increased documented conversations about goals and preferences, driven largely by the clinician nudge.
Patient Perceptions of Palliative Care in Surgery
Study finds seriously ill surgical patients often equate palliative care with hospice, but still raise related concerns with their surgeons.
Care Gap: Identifying and Bridging Barriers in Primary Palliative Care
An article examines why primary palliative care is key to closing the care gap for people with cancer, why past trials haven't replicated specialty care's benefits, and what's needed to move forward.
Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Navigating Outpatient Opioid Prescribing
Practical guidance for palliative care clinicians navigating safe and effective opioid prescribing in the outpatient setting.
Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Addressing Suicidality
What palliative care clinicians need to know about recognizing and responding to suicidal ideation in patients with serious illness.
CMS Proposes Rule That Would Support Community-Based Palliative Care
Under the proposal, the Medicare home health benefit could serve as a key entry point to palliative care.
Measuring How Palliative Care is Delivered: Using Provider Sequences as a New Quality Signal
Study suggests provider sequence may represent a novel quality signal that may better explain end-of-life outcomes than traditional palliative care program characteristics.
Lung Cancer Navigation Pilot: Nurse Outreach Support for Lung Cancer Patients Enrolled in the EOM
Study finds structured nurse outreach for high-risk metastatic lung cancer patients can meaningfully improve key quality and utilization outcomes, including reductions in hospital admissions, ED visits, and cost savings.
Palliative Care Coaching for Family Caregivers of Patients With Advanced Cancer
JAMA Network Open study examines the effect of a palliative care coaching intervention among family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer.
