Palliative Medicine Research Group

Grateful for the opportunity to present at Grand Rounds at @MayoClinic this week! Honored to share our work using tech & EHR data to identify high-risk older adults and support goal-informed care.Excited about future collaborations.Thank you for the warm welcome! @wakeforestmed

🚨Undiagnosed Dementia in #Hospitals🚨 Our study @AGSJournal validates the informant-based Clinical Dementia Rating to detect preexisting #dementia & cognitive impairment when patients are too sick to assess. A step to safer acute & dementia care: agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Proud of my mentee, @EFrechman & our research team on our new publication. We validated the EOL-CI in adults ≥65, showing strong performance & the value of local calibration. 📖 academic.oup.com/jamia/advance-… #PalliativeCare #Informatics #JAMIA #Geriatrics

📢NEW NLA & @AmerGeriatrics expert clinical consensus on managing #hypercholesterolemia in adults older than 75 years without a history of #ASCVD. Read the article now: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The Implementation of Frailty Assessment Tools in the Acute Care Setting: A Scoping Review. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

Identifying Factors Associated With Diminished Active Life Expectancy Among Older Adults m.yale.edu/c453 - serious illnesses and injuries are the major driver of active and disabled life expectancy in older persons

Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial??? What on earth is that????!!!! A complicated study design in which an intervention is rolled out at different times across sites Excellent article will help you understand and make sense of this design. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

How do persons with dementia and caregivers make decisions about aging in place vs moves to long term care. Terrific study using qualitative methods Decisions do not feel like a choice, are made under imperfect conditions, usually reactive not proactive agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

Can an eFI be applied to a healthcare system, with incomplete data? Yes! Here we applied the @VAResearch VA-FI to the @MassGenBrigham health record system. Congratulations @bkocharmd @RitchieCS @rbernack and team! agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… @drandyclegg @AGSJournal @BrighamAging

Thrilled to share our latest work published in @AcadEmergMed! Our team developed the ED Early Mortality Model (EDEM), which outperforms REMS in predicting in-hospital mortality using routine ED data—advancing shared decision-making @JustinBrooten doi.org/10.1111/acem.1…

The study highlights that nearly 6 out of 10 older adults were regular users of the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) over a 5-year period between 2018 and 2022. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

A reminder after celebrating Thanksgiving dinner: many individuals with dementia are placed on thickened liquid diets that impacts quality of life with no good evidence that it benefits them. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

What is the state of Frailty in medical specialties? As part of @NIHAging @ClinSTARCC we review current evidence in @AGSJournal. @KWyshamMD @NamrataRheum @AdamFayeMD @andreashermanNY @LoewenthalMd @bkocharmd @JeremyWalstonMD @GlobalFrailty @shisadoctor agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

From pre-diabetes to Alzheimer’s disease in the cognitively normal, there is an ongoing push to label healthy individuals as sick. Who benefits from this and who is harmed? One of my favorite med journalism articles of 2024 dives into the debate. 🧵 1/4 latimes.com/science/story/…

I can’t believe I’ve been selected for the Early Career Investigator Award by @AAHPM ! 🎉 A heartfelt thank you to my amazing mentors, supportive patients and families, and our dedicated palliative care team for making this possible. Feeling honored! 🙏 #AAHPM #PalliativeResearch

Congrats to our team on their new publication, The Last Visit: Saying Goodbye to Patients, offering compassionate guidance for final conversations in patient care. Read more: mypcnow.org/fast-fact/the-…

🌟 New publication alert! 🌟 Our latest narrative review unveils a conceptual model emphasizing the vital role of chaplains in providing emotional and spiritual support .Read more here: liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jp…

Need a power/sample size calculation for a study or upcoming grant? Led by @emil_hs, we built a simple, free, and pain-free (!) shiny app. feedback welcome plz share with interested parties. check it out: powercalc.ca 🦾🤓 @sholzberg @kieranrcampbell @JeffsLianne @aaron_drucker @WallisCJD @NEJMEvidence @JonZipursky @ChanaSacks

Big congrats to @EFrechman for her important new publication in @JPSMjournal! Her research highlights the need for person-centered ACP interventions for low-income older adults .read here: jpsmjournal.com/article/S0885-…

Thrilled to see the results of the REACH PC study published in @JAMA_current! 📢 Findings show no difference between telehealth and in-person #PalliativeCare, highlighting the potential to expand access through telehealth.jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…