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In this GeriPal podcast (45:18 minutes) Kate Courtright, a critical care and palliative care physician-researcher who conducts trials of palliative care, is interviewed. Kate discusses how despite how far we've come in palliative care research, we still do not have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: (1) who should get specialized palliative care? Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral? By diagnosis? By prognosis? By need?; (2) If we move away from clinician referrals as the means by which people get access, how do we keep the clinicians engaged, and not enraged? Can nudges help?; (3) When should people get palliative care? What does “early” really mean?; (4) How do we move from efficacy (works in highly controlled settings) from effectiveness (works in real world settings? What’s the role of implementation science? What is a pragmatic trial?; (5) What outcomes should we measure?

Source: GeriPal, 2022
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