04.12.2021
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04.12.2021
Expelled from Hospice
When patients with dementia do not decline as expected on hospice, they are too frequently discharged, an experience that Lauren Hunt and Krista Harrison refer... 04.12.2021
Home-Based Medical Care: High-Value Health Care During Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented strains on our healthcare system. Given capacity limitations during the initial crisis and continuing into another season of increasing... 03.08.2021
GIP Hospice Care & Functional Status Assessment in Serious Illness
The Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin (PCNOW) provides peer-reviewed, evidence-based summaries of key palliative care topics (“Fast Facts”). Recently released are Fast Facts covering the... 03.08.2021
Palliative Nursing: The Core of COVID-19 Care
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised the visibility of serious health-related suffering and increased mortality worldwide, underscoring the critical need for improved access to quality palliative... 03.08.2021
Keeping the Family in Family Medicine
In this personal reflection first published in June 2021, a Family Medicine resident at an Academic Center in Northeast Florida as well as a chronic... 02.08.2021
Tapering Opioids in Patients with Serious Illness
The Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin (PCNOW) provides peer-reviewed, evidence-based summaries of key palliative care topics (“Fast Facts”). Recently released are Fast Facts covering the... 02.08.2021
Fostering Student Interest in Palliative Care
Palliative care rotations are often optional for medical students although a growing number of schools are making them mandatory. Pallimed editor-in-chief and associate professor of... 02.08.2021
Medications Safety/Quality Update: Podcast with Nagham Ailabouni
GeriPal recently spoke with Nagham Ailabouni, a pharmacist and researcher from Australia about her review of major articles on medication safety and quality for older...