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Palliative Care: The Hospitalist Perspective (Presented in cooperation with the Society for Hospital Medicine)

Session #: 856-175
Presenter(s): Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP
Session Length: 1:00 hr
Event: 2006 ACP Annual Session
Date: April 6-8, 2006

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Clinical questions to be addressed:
1. Recognize the benefits of palliative care programs for hospitalized patients.
2. Identify ways that palliative care programs meet pain and quality standards established by JCAHO.
3. Increase patient and family satisfaction with hospitals and the health care team through palliative care programs.
4. Describe how inpatient palliative care programs can reduce hospital and ICU length of stay.

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