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Predictors of Palliative Care Knowledge: Findings from the Health Information National Trends Survey

by FPCC | Mar 11, 2022 | Health Affairs

Palliative care is an approach to provide optimal physical, emotional, and practical support to patients with serious illnesses. In the past decade, the practice of palliative care has rapidly grown (1). While the primary goal of palliative care is to relieve a...

Cross Country Comparison of Expert Assessments of the Quality of Death and Dying 2021

by FPCC | Mar 11, 2022 | Health Affairs

Over 55 million people died in 2019.1 The vast majority died in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) without even basic access to palliative care, an essential component of universal health coverage. As a result, many of these individuals died in pain, and with...
Advance Care Planning For Medicare Beneficiaries Increased Substantially, But Prevalence Remained Low

Advance Care Planning For Medicare Beneficiaries Increased Substantially, But Prevalence Remained Low

by FPCC | Apr 5, 2021 | Health Affairs

In 2016 fee-for-service Medicare began reimbursing physicians for advance care planning conversations with enrollees during outpatient visits and waived the copayment for advance care planning when it was part of the Medicare annual wellness visit. Advance care...
Actualizing Better Health And Health Care For Older Adults

Actualizing Better Health And Health Care For Older Adults

by admin | Jan 21, 2021 | Health Affairs

By 2030 more people in the United States will be older than age sixty-five than younger than age five. Our health care system is unprepared for the complexity of caring for a heterogeneous population of older adults—a problem that has been magnified by the coronavirus...
A Path To High-Quality Team-Based Care For People With Serious Illness

A Path To High-Quality Team-Based Care For People With Serious Illness

by admin | Jun 3, 2019 | Health Affairs

Although most care for people with serious illness is delivered by multiple providers and agencies, there is no gold standard for how to assemble, train, unify, and sustain strong teams. Using lessons from complexity science, a way of studying complex systems, we...
Including Family Caregivers In Seriously Ill Veterans’ Care: A Mixed-Methods Study

Including Family Caregivers In Seriously Ill Veterans’ Care: A Mixed-Methods Study

by admin | Jun 3, 2019 | Health Affairs

Family caregivers often serve as unpaid members of the home and community-based care workforce for people with serious illness; as key partners in the home-clinic continuum, they should be included in health care teams. The Campaign for Inclusive Care is an initiative...

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  • Predictors of Palliative Care Knowledge: Findings from the Health Information National Trends Survey
  • What matters most to patients and families at end of life: Findings from Quality of Death and Dying Index 2021
  • Cross Country Comparison of Expert Assessments of the Quality of Death and Dying 2021
  • Policy Avenues for Increasing Access to Advance Care Planning
  • Researchers: Nearly 90% of Americans Do Not Understand Palliative Care

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