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Standardizing The Palliative Care Referral Process, Ronaviv M. Garcia
Standardizing The Palliative Care Referral Process, Ronaviv M. Garcia
Master's Projects and Capstones
Standardizing the Palliative Care Referral Process
Problem: Heart failure (HF) is one of the most common causes of hospital admissions and emergency department visits in the United States. HF patients are at high risk for hospital readmission: 25% of HF patients discharged from the hospital are readmitted within 30 days of discharge, and 50% are readmitted within 6 months (Vedel & Khanossov, 2015).
Context: Palliative Care (PC) has been shown to be an effective way of managing distressing HF symptoms and thus of reducing hospital readmissions, yet patients are infrequently referred to PC services during their transition from hospital to …
The Impact Of Intensive Case Management On Hospice Utilization, Debra Lowry Hummel
The Impact Of Intensive Case Management On Hospice Utilization, Debra Lowry Hummel
Doctoral Projects
Objective: The purpose of this study is to examine if patients enrolled in multi-disciplinary intensive case management program (ImPACT) alter the patient’s end-of-life path or setting of death.
Methods: The quality improvement project is a quantitative retrospective study that compared patients receiving standard primary care vs intensive case management (ImPACT) during 2/2013-1/2014. It is a secondary analysis of a larger study of a quality improvement evaluation that took place at the Veterans Administration facility in Palo Alto, Ca.
Results: Among the 82 patients who died, 19 were enrolled in ImPACT for approximately 249 days compared to 63 who received standard …