Congratulations to all the 2025 @aahpm.bsky.social Visionaries. Especially excited to see Rabia Atayee named!Member and past-president of @sppcp-official.bsky.social #hapc24 #PalPharm #PharmSky

Hey @katemckillip.bsky.social I appreciated your support of this at #hapc24.

Thought you'd find this interesting.

A little late but donated to Housing Security.

Thanks for highlighting this @katemckillip.bsky.social , I missed the original promotion by @hollyby.bsky.social

I hope this is done for #hapc25. I will help promote it.

#hapc #hapc24

Reflecting on a hectic week at work after a week of vacation & then 3 days at our national conference #hapc24. I'm so grateful for our #palliative care team here at KU Health System. Lots of good work accomplished in tough situations. Kind words and support flowing in multiple directions.

#Kansas

About Us - Endnotes Endnotes was created by editors of Pallimed who wanted to provide a forum to easily share ideas in hospice and palliative care. We believe in thoughtful, well written, and peer-reviewed writing that i...

After the amazing week at
#hapc24 we have a call for people passionate in writing and editing in pall care to join our growing interprofessonal editorial board
at End Notes.

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Appreciate your leadership Dr Yang! Looking forward to Dr Jackson's term #hapc24 #pallonc #supponc

A bittersweet final #BowTieSelfie pic for Day 3 of #hapc24. I have loved absorbing some of the latest data at #sots24 What is the most impactful moments of the conference for you so far? #hpm #pallonc #supponc @ctsinclair.bsky.social @ewidera.bsky.social @pallidad.bsky.social @hollyby.bsky.social

Thanks non hospice and palliative people for bearing withe the #hapc24 posts this week. It is nearly over so the volume should be going down.

Scientific graph showing less PTSD symptoms in the group that saw inpatient palliative care for Stem cell transplantation.

Big change in PTSD (medical trauma) in the intervention arm. This can have long term effects. #hapc24

Cut to the chase: Inpatient #palliativecare intervention led to substantial improvements in patients’ QOL, depression and PTSD symptoms, as well as caregiver anxiety during HSCT hospitalization with sustained effects on patients’ PTSD symptoms up to six months post-HSCT. #hapc24 #HemeOnc #MedSky

Three-site RCT with 360 adults undergoing autologous or allogeneic #HSCT and their caregivers. Randomly assigned to an inpatient #palliativecare intervention (n=180) versus usual care (n=180). Participants met with a PC at least 2x weekly during the HSCT hospitalization to address symptoms #hapc24

Next article is:

Randomized Trial of Inpatient Palliative Care for Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

presented by Tom LeBlanc. #hapc24

Making a list of #hospice and #palliative care people. Help me find people I need to add to it!

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#hapc #hapc24 #palliativecare #medsky

Hospice utilization and LOS no different. 1 key finding is participants voted with their feet. Utilization was much stronger with the telephonic RN follow-up compared to having to see people in a PC clinic. doesn't mean that this replaces PC clinic, they have roles, just may be different. #hapc24

Outcome of EMPallA: QOL improved by the FACT-G score in both arms, symptom burden improved with no difference in loneliness at 6 months. What is interesting is that there were no differences in treatment arm in outcomes, yet interesting to note that a nurse-led program is quite economical. #hapc24

Outcomes were Quality of Life, Healthcare utilization (claims data), Loneliness (3-item Loneliness scale) and Symptom Burden (ESAS).

A bit worried about multiple imputations for missing data, but I would need to read the article to dig deeper on that.

#hapc24

Here are the two arms of the intervention for EMPallA #hapc24

Next up is the EMPallA study looking at Nurse-led telephonic Case Management Versus Outpatient Palliative Care in Older Adults with Serious Illness. The study was done in 18 EDs across the country. Looking at 50yo+ with adv cancer or end-stage organ failure. #hapc24 #hapc #MedSky #EmergencyMedicine

Conclusion - Electronic nudges to promote recommended communication for critically ill patients at high-risk of death did not reduce LOS, but did improve some end-of-life care outcomes without impacting mortality. #hapc24

ICU docs were asked about expected prognosis and if they offered a care plan focused on comfort in accordance with guidelines. Manuscript is under review, so data not published yet, but it looks promising and practical across busy ICU settings. #hapc24 #hapc #ICU

Many guidelines about improving communication in the ICU.

I really appreciate this slide showing the idea of clinical inertia in the ICU. From Kruser et a 2017 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

#hapc #hapc24 #medsky

Welcome to 2024-2025 AAHPM President Vicki Jackson, MD MPH FAAHPM

It has been an honor and a joy to have been President of @AAHPM this past year. I am grateful for the support of our membership, the incredible work of all the volunteers & staff, and the support of my family. Congrats to @DrVickiJackson on becoming President! #hapc24

State of the Science for #hapc24 starting now!

#hapc #PalliativeCare #icu #medsky

Congrats to Stacy Fisher as the new AAHPM Scientific Advisor, a newly created position this year. #hapc24 #AAHPM #hospice #palliativecare

Wonderful news! New palliative care research funding passed last night in Congress! #hapc24

Congratulations to the 2024 Early Career Investigator Award winner Ashwin Kotwal, MD! #hapc24 #hapc #hospice #palliativecare

His work is focused on the impacts of isolation and loneliness.

#MedSky

Congratulations to the 2023 Fellows of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (FAAHPM). So many great people on this list, and I love that the field is so big now that there are many I do not know (yet!)
#hapc24 #palliativecare #Hospice #AAHPM

Bed in direct view of the bathroom commode

A terry cloth poncho worn by a nurse to demonstrate bathing techniques.

Various feeling blankets and apron’s for occupational therapy and walker for sizing and demonstration

Thankful for touring Hospice of the Valley #Dementia Campus during #hapc24 Design bedroom with the bed in direct view of commode, terry cloth poncho for bathing, #occupational therapy model room to teach ADLs with caregivers. Use warm rice pack to hold in hands, heated room, blow bubbles #hospice

Congratulations to the 2024 Award for Excellence in Scientific Research in #PalliativeCare winner Nathan Goldstein, MD FAAHPM. #hapc24 youtu.be/j3sojpdddHo

Well-deserved recognition for a great person.

#AAHPM

Dialectical thinking is 2 things that seem opposite can both be true at the same time. There are always multiple ways to see something and to solve a problem. Change is the only constant and can move between acceptance and change.

Writing a certain narrative can push us into single story which is dangerous for resilience.

Feel seen, validated in challenges and motivation to improve.
Say to yourself-
“I don’t like what is in front of me but I have to function/work within it while trying to change it.” #hapc24