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Impact Of Palliative Care Consultations For Patients Admitted To Maine Medical Center With Acute Exacerbations Of Copd, Benjamin Jarrett, Isabella Strumpf, Rebecca Hutchinson

Maine Medical Center

Background and purpose:

• COPD is the 3rd leading cause of death.

• Specialty Palliative Care (PC) is underutilized in COPD patients.

•PC involvement has been shown to improve quality of life and satisfaction with overall care.

• We sought to evaluate the association of receipt of palliative medicine consultation during an admission for acute exacerbation of COPD with a documented Goals of Care conversations and/or presence of an advanced directive and/or POLST.

Northern New England Palliative Care Teleconsult Research Laboratory, Ava Daruvala, Rebecca N. Hutchinson, Eric Anderson, Paul Han

Maine Medical Center

Introduction:

• Palliative care (PC) is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families.

• Delivery of PC via telehealth technology (tele-PC) has been proposed as a solution to increase access to PC in rural areas. • The feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of applying telehealth technology to PC remains unknown.

• The overarching purpose of the proposed study is to 1) evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a tele-PC intervention for seriously ill patients, and 2) generate pilot data to better understand provider-patient communication during tele-PC consultations