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 Group
Special Article
Methodological Research Priorities in Palliative Care and Hospice Quality Measurement
Sydney Morss Dy, Keela Herr, Rachelle E. Bernacki, Arif H. Kamal, Anne M. Walling, Mary Ersek, and Sally A. Norton
Review Article
Sickle Cell Disease: A Review of Non-Pharmacological Approaches for Pain
Hants Williams and Paula Tanabe
Original Articles
The Burden of Polypharmacy in Patients Near the End of Life
Michael J. McNeil, Arif H. Kamal, Jean S. Kutner, Christine S. Ritchie, and Amy P. Abernethy
Does Increasing Homecare Nursing Reduce Emergency Department Visits at the End of Life? A Population-Based Cohort Study of Cancer Decedents
Hsien Seow, Lisa Barbera, Reka Pataky, Beverley Lawson, Erin O’Leary, Konrad Fassbender, Kim McGrail, Fred Burge, Melissa Brouwers, and Rinku Sutradhar
To access the articles, you must subscribe to JPSM or be a member of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). For further information on the Academy, call 847.375.4712 or visit aahpm.org.
Submitted by: David J. Casarett, MD, MA, Senior Associate Editor, JPSM
Thanks for the articles, they are really useful.