Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast
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What's the Right Dose of Palliative Care in the Context of an Illness?
Eric Stek: How can we be more thoughtful about these care models to provide just the right dose of pold of care at the right critical points in the illness course to really modify outcomes? And those studies are being done. We need to start an evidence space for any intervention, whether it's a cancer treatment or support of another patient population. That study is almost done. Its enrolling patients at m g h a duke da university pennsylvania, and we have about forty more patients to go. But you are absolutely correct that we need to start disseminating these evidence based interventions to other places, other settinings.
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