Journal of pain and symptom management
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Dec 2018
Defining Core Competencies for Generalist-Level Palliative Social Work.
Care provided to seriously ill patients by frontline social workers is a component of generalist-level palliative care. The core competencies for high-quality generalist-level palliative social work are necessary to promote training curricula and best practices but have not yet been defined in the U.S. ⋯ The 41 consensus-derived competencies for generalist-level palliative social work may inform the development of training curricula and standards for high-quality care.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Dec 2018
Improving Value of Care for Older Adults With Advanced Medical Illness and Functional Decline: Cost Analyses of a Home-Based Palliative Care Program.
Identifying high-value health care delivery for patients with clinically complex and high-cost conditions is important for future reimbursement models. ⋯ The Mayo Clinic Palliative Care Homebound Program reduced annual Medicare expenditures by $18,251 per program participant compared with matched control patients. This supports the role of home-based palliative medicine in delivering high-value care to high-risk older adults.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Dec 2018
A Systematic Assessment and Monitoring Intervention to Improve Pain Management and Quality Reporting Among Home Hospice Patients.
Validated and reproducible means to systematically improve pain documentation and outcomes in home-based hospice populations are generally lacking. This article describes a novel electronic medical record (EMR)-embedded pain monitoring and management program for home-based hospice patients. ⋯ Integrating the upgraded EMR system into routine practice and workflow was critical to facilitating rapid recognition of escalating pain and inadequate pain management as well as allowing improving monitoring of patient outcomes and staff performance.
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