March 2021

The Impact of COVID-19 Surge on Clinical Palliative Care: A Descriptive Study From a New York Hospital System

• Derek Moriyama,
• Jennifer S. Scherer,
• Ryan Sullivan,
• Joseph Lowy,
• Jeffrey T. Berger

Racial Equity in Palliative Care

• Tammie E. Quest,

• Vyjeyanthi S. Periyakoil,

• Timothy E. Quill,

• David Casarett

How We Can Improve the Quality of Care for Patients Requesting Medical Assistance in Dying: A Qualitative Study of Health Care Providers

• Simon J.W. Oczkowski,
• Diane Crawshaw,
• Peggy Austin,
• ...
• Ellen Wiebe,
• Marianne Dees,
• Andrea Frolic

Italian Version of Cancer Dyspnea Scale: Cultural-Linguistic and Clinical Validation in Patients With Advanced Cancer Disease in Palliative Care Settings

• Stefania Tinti,
• Beatrice De Maria,
• Monica Parati,
• ...
• Nicla Urbano,
• Keiko Tanaka,
• Anne Destrebecq

Launching the Next Steps to Improve Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellow Performance Assessment: A Look Back to the Initial Toolkit of Assessment Methods

• Laura J. Morrison,
• Vyjeyanthi S. Periyakoil,
• Robert M. Arnold,
• ...
• Eva Chittenden,
• Sandra Sanchez-Reilly,
• Elise C. Carey

My Wife's Palliative Care Helped Both of Us

• Thomas S. Wallsten

Code Status Blues: Do Physicians Order Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) Less Often Since Texas Enacted DNR Law? (W205A)

• Carolyn W. April,

• Jason Morrow,

• Michael D. April

A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship Between Advance Care Planning and the Care Received at the End of Life Among Patients with Cancer (W205B)

• Kristin Levoy,

• Suzanne S. Sullivan

A Missed Opportunity: Advance Care Planning Documentation in Patients with COVID-19 (W205C)

• Raphaela Lipinsky DeGette,

• Fangdi Sun,

• Elizabeth Cummings,

• Lisa X. Deng,

• Karen Hauser,

• Zoe Kopp,

• John Penner,

• Brandon Scott,

• Katie Raffel,

• Molly A. Kantor

Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status Is Associated with Advance Care Planning Among Older Adults (W205D)

• Sarah S. Nouri,

• Courtney R. Lyles,

• Anna D. Rubinsky,

• Kanan Patel,

• Riya Desai,

• Jessica Fields,

• Mindy C. DeRouen,

• Aiesha M. Volow,

• Rebecca L. Sudore

English- and Spanish-Speaking Vulnerable Older Adults Report Many Unique Barriers to Advance Care Planning (W215A)

• Linda H. Phung,

• Deborah E. Barnes,

• Aiesha M. Volow,

• Nikita R. Shirsat,

• Rebecca L. Sudore

Barriers and Facilitators to Advance Care Planning Among Seriously Ill Chinese Americans and Their Caregivers (W215B)

• Zhimeng Jia,

• Irene M. Yeh,

• Albert S. Yeung,

• James A. Tulsky,

• Richard E. Leiter

Empowering the People: Introducing an Advance Care Planning Conversation to Improve Cultural Sensitivity Among African American Heart Failure Patients (W215C)

• Konda Keebler,

• Richard A. Taylor,

• Chao-Hui Sylvia Huang

The Epidemiology of Social Isolation and Loneliness Among Older Adults During the Last Years of Life (W215D)

• Ashwin A. Kotwal,

• Irena Cenzer,

• Linda J. Waite,

• Louise Hawkley,

• Alexander K. Smith

A Palliative Care Consult Trigger Tool for Trauma Patients (W225A)

• Angelo P. Canedo,

• R. Jonathan Robitsek,

• Alan R. Roth

The Palliative Care State Policy GPS: A New Tool to Track State Policies on Palliative Care (W225C)

• Carolyn T. Lye,

• Eugene Rusyn,

• Shelli Feder,

• Dena J. Schulman-Green,

• Stacie Sinclair,

• Abbe R. Gluck

Novel Communication Liaison Program in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit: Impact on Liaison Participants (W225D)

• Nicole H. Moraco,

• Adam D. Lipworth,

• Megan E. Harper,

• Sheri A. Keitz,

• Anne C. Mosenthal

Relationship Between Household Material Hardship and Distress in Parents of Children with Advanced Cancer: A Report from the PediQUEST Response Trial (T315A)

• Ijeoma J. Eche,

• Liliana Orellana,

• Veronica Dussel,

• Kira Bona,

• Joanne Wolfe

Strengthening the Therapeutic Alliance Between Parents of Children with Severe Neurologic Impairment and Healthcare Providers During Critical Decision-Making (T315B)

• Jori F. Bogetz,

• Hannah Lewis,

• Kelly J. Shipman,

• Danielle Jonas,

• Amy C. Trowbridge,

• Abby R. Rosenberg

Mapping Parents’ Journey Following Prenatal Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease (T315C)

• Kelly W. Harris,

• Catherine M. Hammack-Aviran,

• Kathleen M. Brelsford,

• Ann Kavanaugh-McHugh,

• Ellen W. Clayton

Palliative Care to the People: Partnering with a Patient Experience Department to Raise Awareness of Palliative Care in the Community (T315D)

• Grant M. Smith,

• Ashley Bragg,

• Claire R. Bleymaier,

• Rachelle A. Mirkin,

• Stephanie M. Harman

Care for a Dying Patient: EMS Perspectives on Caring for Hospice Patients (F405A)

• Andrew Wenger,

• Megan Potilechio,

• John Aguilar,

• Joshua Mastenbrook

Innovative Hospice Education for Trainees (F405B)

• Briana Ketterer,

• Julie W. Childers,

• Robert M. Arnold

The Association Between Varying Levels of Palliative Care Involvement on Costs During Terminal Hospitalizations in Canada from 2012–2015 (F405C)

• Sarina R. Isenberg,

• Chris Meaney,

• Peter May,

• Peter Tanuseputro,

• Kieran L. Quinn,

• Danial Qureshi,

• Stephanie Saunders,

• Colleen Webber,

• Hsien Seow,

• James Downar,

• Thomas J. Smith,

• Peter G. Lawlor,

• Julie Lachance,

• Kim McGrail,

• Amy T. Hsu

Playing Nice in the Sandbox: Lessons on Roles, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, and Leadership from a VA National Improvement Intervention (F405D)

• Jessica Ma,

• Marie C. Haverfield,

• Cati Brown-Johnson,

• Karl A. Lorenz,

• Karleen F. Giannitrapani

Methylnaltrexone for Refractory Opioid-Induced Constipation in Hospitalized Cancer Patients—A Highly Effective Treatment (F415A)

• David Harris,

• David Z. Kalir,

• Cory A. Chevalier,

• Krista R. Dobbie,

• Flannery Fielding,

• Ruth L. Lee,

• Ahed Makhoul,

• Susan McInnes,

• Kyle Neale,

• Lisa Rybicki,

• Melanie Robbins-Ong,

• Kathleen Neuendorf,

• Sina Najafi

Patient-Reported and End-of-Life Outcomes Among Adults with Oncogene-Driven Lung Cancer in a Clinical Trial of Early Integrated Palliative Care: A Secondary Analysis (F415C)

• Laura A. Petrillo,

• Areej El-Jawahri,

• Emily R. Gallagher,

• Vicki Jackson,

• Jennifer Temel,

• Joseph Greer

What Is Empathy: Cancer Patients’ Perceptions of an Ill-Defined Construct (F415D)

• Justin J. Sanders,

• Manisha Dubey,

• Rachel Schwartz,

• Judith Hall

Feasibility of Implementing a Standard Operating Protocol for Safe Opioid Prescribing in Outpatient Palliative Care: A Quality Improvement Project (F425A)

• Margaret R. Bauer,

• Tracy L. Shamas,

• Sarah Gillespie-Heyman,

• Samuel Adelman,

• Andrea Ruskin

Using the Palliative Performance Scale as a Trigger to Increase Goals-of-Care Conversations in Elderly Trauma Patients (F425B)

• Michele Fiorentino,

• Patricia A. Walling,

• Janell C. Rosania,

• Kathryn Grana,

• Debbie M. Brucato-Duncan,

• Jessica Barbosa,

• Nicole H. Moraco,

• Nina E. Glass,

• David H. Livingston,

• Anne C. Mosenthal

“TIMEOUT” Before PEG Placement: A Policy Approach to Align Shared Decision-Making and Goals of Care Through Palliative Intervention (F425C)

• Brigit C. Palathra,

• Hoda Abdelaziz,

• Elizabeth Lee,

• Cynthia X. Pan,

• Calvin Hwang,

• Robert Crupi

Increasing Access to Interventional Pain Management Therapies for Palliative Care Patients with Cancer Through Referral System Improvement (F425D)

• Ewelina K. Gibek,

• Dena J. Schulman-Green

Support Intervention for Families and Caregivers of Palliative Care Patients (QI701)

• Jessica Bland,

• Rhea Faye Felicilda-Reynaldo

They're Dying: Now What? Improving Nursing Knowledge and Self-Efficacy in End-Of-Life Care (QI702)

• Rachel Sabolish,

• Jennifer Wilson,

• Hollie Caldwell