End-Of-Life Care Archives

Clinical briefs for Wednesday, Aug. 25

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Alicia Lasek

August 25, 2021

Training not enough to reduce hospitalization, ED visits in end-of-life care … Breakthrough infections may be less transmissible, study in healthcare workers suggests … Wider vaccine approvals on the way; COVID may be under control by 2022, Fauci predicts … Good hydration may prevent heart failure, federal researchers find … COVID transmission risk greatest 2 to 3 days around symptoms onset … Five-minute cognitive assessment has promising results in validity study, developer says

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Caregivers can help elders retain their dignity during intimate hygiene care, study finds

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Alicia Lasek

July 7, 2021

Clinicians can offer “moments of micro-competence,” giving palliative care patients a voice in how they receive care as their abilities decline, investigators say.

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Skilled nursing facility guidance part of Arizona’s revised crisis care plan

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Alicia Lasek

May 27, 2021

The revisions include guidance on honoring care and treatment preferences in federal skilled nursing facilities. The changes follow a complaint against the state brought by national and local disability and aging advocacy groups.

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Q&A: Clinical best practices when gauging residents’ end-of-life preferences — a POLST expert weighs in

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Alicia Lasek

April 29, 2021

There’s a clear need to improve the quality of Physician’s Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, or POLST, in nursing homes, says Susan E. Hickman, Ph.D. An expert on the subject, she spoke with the McKnight’s Clinical Daily about her latest findings on best practices in advance care planning.

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Most residents’ life-sustaining treatment forms no longer match wishes, study shows

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Danielle Brown

April 6, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the importance of advanced care planning and Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) after a new study found that less than half of the orders match the current treatment preferences.

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People with dementia receive fewer palliative referrals than those with cancer: study

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Alicia Lasek

March 5, 2021

A large study from Canada has found disparities in palliative care referral between people with dementia or organ failure and people with cancer.

Clinical Daily News

Faithfully merging palliative care and infection control reduces harmful resident transfers: study

By

Alicia Lasek

March 2, 2021

The more a nursing home adheres to the newer concept of integrated best practices in these areas, the fewer hospital transfers in residents with advanced dementia, researchers say.

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End-of-life experience in nursing homes differs with race, ethnicity

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Alicia Lasek

January 21, 2021

Language services and cultural competency training could help nursing home staff correct imbalances in residents’ end-of-life experience, say investigators from the Columbia University School of Nursing.

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Clinical briefs for Thursday, Dec. 17

By

Alicia Lasek

December 17, 2020

Drug added to remdesivir reduces time to recovery in COVID … Communication with nursing home staff critical during lockdown, bereaved families say … Certain drug treatments linked to survival rates in hospitalized COVID patients … LTC pharmacies report top concerns about big chains’ involvement in COVID vaccinations

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U.S. palliative care duration comes up short, international study finds

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Alicia Lasek

December 1, 2020

The United States lags behind other countries in palliative care service duration. On average, patients have 10 days fewer than those in comparison countries, researchers say.