Rebecca Sudore on Advance Care Planning: The Prepare Trial
May 18, 2017
BREAKING! We are posting this the moment the embargo lifts on Rebecca Sudore’s Prepare trial. As most of you know,…
Using Our Pink Friend (POLST) Appropriately: Please Help!
April 24, 2017
The National POLST Paradigm Task Force (NPPTF) has just released their updated “Appropriate POLST Paradigm Form Use Policy,” which can…
GeriPal Podcast: Laura Hanson on Improving Advanced Dementia Care in Nursing Homes
April 4, 2017
Advance Care Planning · Dementia · Geriatrics · Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM) · Mental Health
Today’s GeriPal podcast features Laura Hanson, Geriatrician and Palliative Medicine physician at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Laura…
Advance Care Planning Volunteer Certification?
January 14, 2017
The Colorado Health Foundation has recently funded a host of proposalsaround our state to increase advance care planning (ACP) in…
Can your Emergency Physician find your Advance Directive?
October 28, 2016
by: Ryan Van Wert, MD Providing high quality emergency care to individuals with serious, life-limiting illness starts with an understanding of…
A physicians group’s baseless objections to advance care planning
September 28, 2015
AAPS objections to CMS payment for Advance Care Planning are a wreck. Source: Wikimedia Commons by: Stan Terman, PhD, MD…
?s about Medicare payment for advance care planning
September 4, 2015
The Supreme Court case of Cruzan (Nancy Cruzan pictured) vs. Missouri established the right of individuals to make decisions in…
ePOLST: It’s about damn time!
July 7, 2015
By: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD The following is a quote from an Emergency Medicine physician I interviewed for a study about…
Decision aids in serious illness: dissemination strategy, anyone?
May 24, 2015
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD I was fortunate to be part of a really nice systematic review of decision aids for…
Using video to jumpstart The Conversation: a book review
February 26, 2015
Reviewed: The Conversation, by Angelo Volandes Reviewed by: Alex Smith Using video to help patients with serious illness make decisions…