According to Trip Advisor, there are 162 exciting things to do in Pittsburgh. We know you won’t have time to do them all since learning will be your priority at the AAHPM Summer Institute July 24-27, but we thought you may want to see what the top 10 things are: PNC Park “Best ballpark in … Read morePittsburgh. Mighty. Beautiful.
The National Quality Forum (NQF) held an in-person meeting in Washington, DC, May 10-11, 2016, to re-evaluate 16 palliative & end-of-life care performance measures. Information about the measures being evaluated, the NQF process, and the NQF Standing Committee roster can be found on the NQF website. AAHPM leaders Christine Ritchie, Paul Tatum, Gregg VandeKieft, and … Read moreAAHPM Represented at NQF Palliative and End-of-Life Care Meeting
On May 13-14 2016, the Peruvian Societies of Palliative Care (Sociedad Peruana de Cuidados Paliativos, SPCP) and Neurology (Sociedad Peruana de Neurologia, SPN) held their first two-day conference and workshop on “Palliative Care and Neurology” in Lima, Peru. In a country without a palliative care training program, and where the development of palliative care is … Read moreFirst Neuro-Palliative Care Workshop in Peru
Listed below are a few articles from the most recent issue of the journal: Original Articles Effects of a Short-Term Dance Movement Therapy Program on Symptoms and Stress in Patients with Breast Cancer Undergoing Radiotherapy: A Randomized, Controlled, Single-Blind Trial Rainbow T. H. Ho, Ted C.T. Fong, Irene K. M. Cheung, Paul S. F. Yip, … Read moreHighlights of the May Issue of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
By Gregg VandeKieft, MD MA FAAFP FAAHPM Chair, AAHPM Advocacy & Awareness Strategic Coordinating Committee This week (4/5/16), Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) (shown in photo addressing Academy leaders during AAHPM’s 2015 Capitol Hill Days) reintroduced the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA) in the U.S. Senate as S. 2748. The bill is … Read moreAdvancing PCHETA: We Need YOU!
Listed below are a few articles from the most recent issue of the journal: Special Series on Measuring What Matters Concordance of Advance Care Plans with Inpatient Directives in the Electronic Medical Record for Older Patients Admitted from the Emergency Department Corita R. Grudzen, Philip Buonocore, Jonathan Steinberg, Joanna M. Ortiz, Lynne D. Richardson, and … Read moreHighlights of the April Issue of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Special Series on Measuring What Matters Adherence to Measuring What Matters Measures Using Point-of-Care Data Collection Across Diverse Clinical Settings Arif H. Kamal, Janet Bull, Christine S. Ritchie, Jean S. Kutner, Laura C. Hanson, Fred Friedman, Donald H. Taylor, Jr., and the AAHPM Research Committee Writing Group Original Articles Tai Chi Exercise for Cancer-Related Fatigue … Read moreHighlights of the March Issue of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Listed below are a few articles from the most recent issue of the journal: Special Series on Measuring What Matters Feeling Heard and Understood: A Patient-Reported Quality Measure for the Inpatient Palliative Care Setting Robert Gramling, Susan Stanek, Susan Ladwig, Elizabeth Gajary-Coots, Jenica Cimino, Wendy Anderson, Sally A. Norton, and the AAHPM Research Committee Writing … Read moreHighlights of the February Issue of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Listed below are a few articles from the most recent issue of the journal: Original Articles Differences in Physicians’ Verbal and Nonverbal Communication with Black and White Patients at the End of Life Andrea M. Elliott, Stewart C. Alexander, Craig A. Mescher, Deepika Mohan, and Amber E. Barnato The Influence of Race/Ethnicity and Education on … Read moreHighlights of the January Issue of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Congratulations to Dr. Kimberly Bower who recently earned the designation Fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. This new Fellow of the Academy was asked – Who would you consider your primary mentor and what have you learned from him/her? We are sharing her answer in this post. It is only through … Read moreNew FAAHPM – Kimberly A. Bower, MD HMDC FAAHPM