Journal of pain and symptom management
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Jul 2020
Cross-cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Validation of the French Version of the FAMCARE-Patient Questionnaire (FFP-16) for Outpatients with Advanced-stage Cancer.
Satisfaction is known to be correlated with the quality of care; it indicates the adequacy of the caregivers' responses in meeting the needs and expectations of patients. The FAMCARE-Patient questionnaire has been used to quantify satisfaction level in outpatients with advanced-stage cancers. ⋯ We found the FFP-16 questionnaire to be a reliable and valid instrument for the assessment of satisfaction in French outpatients with advanced-stage cancer.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Jul 2020
Scaling implementation of the Serious Illness Care Program through Coaching.
We designed group coaching calls to reinforce communication skill acquisition and Serious Illness Care Program uptake in adult primary care. ⋯ Group coaching of PCPs resulted in more than a twofold increase in documented serious illness conversations.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Jul 2020
Rapid Implementation of Inpatient Telepalliative Medicine Consultations during COVID-19 Pandemic.
As coronavirus disease 2019 cases increase throughout the country and health care systems grapple with the need to decrease provider exposure and minimize personal protective equipment use while maintaining high-quality patient care, our specialty is called on to consider new methods of delivering inpatient palliative care (PC). Telepalliative medicine has been used to great effect in outpatient and home-based PC but has had fewer applications in the inpatient setting. As we plan for decreased provider availability because of quarantine and redeployment and seek to reach increasingly isolated hospitalized patients in the face of coronavirus disease 2019, the need for telepalliative medicine in the inpatient setting is now clear. We describe our rapid and ongoing implementation of telepalliative medicine consultation for our inpatient PC teams and discuss lessons learned and recommendations for programs considering similar care models.