Vicki Jackson on Building the Evidence Base for Palliative Care
January 25, 2017
Tremendous amount of exciting new data coming out of one of our nation’s oldest palliative care services: Massachusetts General Hospital…
A Podcast with Dame Cicely Saunders
January 22, 2017
Yes, we have a podcast with Dame Cicely Saunders, the founder of the modern hospice movement. No, it’s not one…
House Calls are Old-School
January 21, 2017
Dr. Heidmann on the way to an apointment. This sunny Saturday morning, I drove to a couple of house calls…
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…
How to Incorporate the Results of a New Trial of Palliative Care in Lung and GI Cancers
January 4, 2017
by: Eric Widera (@ewidera) A little over 6 years ago, Jennifer Temel and colleagues published a trial of patients with…
Descriptive terms for older people: older is in and elderly is out
December 30, 2016
“Never be the first to use a new descriptive term for older people nor the last to give up an…
Palliative care: the long view
December 21, 2016
by: Alex Smith, @AlexSmithMD In 1976, Balfour Mount published a landmark description of the first palliative care unit, in the Royal…
Rejecting Neutrality – Reducing Burdensome Hospitalizations For Nursing Home Residents
December 19, 2016
Nursing home residents are often sent to the hospital for care that often offers little hope of improving quality of…
Improving Serious Illness Communication By Developing Formulations
December 12, 2016
Clinical formulations, something that few of us outside of mental health providers know about, but can be a critical tool…
Antipsychotics Worsen Delirium and Make You Die (Slightly) Faster…
December 6, 2016
Antipsychotics are often used to treat delirium, although the evidence behind their efficacy is pretty minimal. That evidence is…