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Ravi Parikh: Engaging hospices to provide earlier PC

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Aug 4, 2024, 04:11

Ravi Parikh: Engaging hospices to provide earlier PC

Ravi Parikh, Oncologist at Penn Medicine and Veterans Affairs, shared on X about a recent paper by Tamar Klaiman et al. titled “Hospice Administrators and Providers Perspectives on Providing Upstream Palliative Care: Facilitators, Barriers, and Policy Prescriptions” published in Journal of Palliative Medicine.

Authors: Tamar Klaiman, Jenna Steckel, Caleb Hearn, Amaya Diana, William Ferrell, Ezekiel Emanuel, Amol Navathe and Ravi Parikh.

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“Palliative care before hospice increases quality of life and transitions to hospice, but most patients with serious illness do not receive specialty PC. Could engaging hospices to provide earlier PC help? Our study in Journal of Palliative Medicine investigates.”

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