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What an incredible night of connection. So grateful for my #pallonc community. They keep my cup full for this crucial work that we do #hapc26
Wonderful end to another amazing Annual Assembly. Tomorrow, it’s back to work but today is reading in the California sun. #hapc26
Huge thank you to the incredible staff of @aahpm.bsky.social and @hpna-info.bsky.social for a wonderful Annual Assembly! #HAPC26
A big thank you to all the attendees of #hapc26 - your enthusiasm and participation made the conference a huge success! Dive back into the amazing content on the Assembly platform until June 30 and keep the learning journey alive.
Four people outside in San Diego eating lunch at the AAHPM conference
People outside in San Diego smiling
Two smiling people (recent fellowship alumni) standing in front of poster at conference
Stanford HPM Fellowship and team reunion dinner in San Diego
This was a hard week to be Iranian-American. There was also connection, joy, reunions, collaboration w/many incredible hospice & palliative people from across country & world. Soaking up joy alongside sorrow, & hoping to be small part of creating a kinder more compassionate world. #hapc #hpm #hapc26
Definitely channeling your engagement. So grateful you reached out to me during my first in-person @aahpm.bsky.social meeting and it meant to world to me. Hope we can still keep this #SoMe community thriving. #hapc26
Key resource highlighted by Dr. Dussault: - An Organized Approach to Opioid Management in patients with OUD and Painful Serious Illness - 7Ps
Patient, Problem, Plan, Prescription, Pharmacology, Performance, and Prevention
www.jpsmjournal.com/article/S088...
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Next talk:
Caring through Complexity: Developing a Palliative Care Opioid and Stimulant Use Disorder Workflow
presented by Nicole Dussault, MD MS
I'm so glad this session has a full hour to unpack this important and complex topic.
#HAPC26
#PalliativeCare
Here is the protocol for the UPLIFT study, a pragmatic stepped wedge trial in 16 nursing homes in Maryland and Indiana.
#HAPC26
#NursingHome #Dementia
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37496001/
Slide with text showing UPLIFT Intervention Core Intervention Elements External PC consultations In-house champions, trained by study team (minimum 2, at least one LPN or RN) NH staff participation in education Systematic screening for PC needs Flexible Intervention Elements Visit schedule Job role of the champions – RN, LPN, social services, or chaplain Schedule of education topics and format of delivery
The key research question for the UPLIFT study was:
Among residents with cognitive impairment, does a
palliative care program in nursing homes impact
resident symptom burden?
#HAPC26 #Dementia #NursingHome #HAPC #PallaitiveCare #MedSky
Slide with a person in Wheelchair in a picture in lower righ Nursing Homes • >15,000 facilities • Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care • Average of 106 beds; 1.7 million beds • Nearly all Medicare-Medicaid certified • ~$85-100K per year • Medicaid payer for 60% • Plagued by inconsistent quality...
Last presentation of the morning plenary: "UPLIFT Clinical Trial: Impact of Palliative Care Consults in Nursing Homes" presented by Kathleen Unroe, MD, MHA, MS.
UPLIFT = Utilizing Palliative Leaders in Facilities to Transform Care
#HAPC26 #PalliativeCare
I love your pictures! They really capture the joy and friendliness of #HAPC26
Summary of Key Findings 4 sections with icons representing these paragraphs: 95,322 inpatient encounters across 16 hospitals (Apr 2024–Mar 2025) 14% of patients with serious illness received PCC; 55% were timely (within 72 hours) Patients with cancer and dementia had the highest likelihood of timely consultation at 63% and 56% respectively, ESRD had the lowest at 41% Higher Odds of Timely Consult - Emergent Admission - Older age (>80 y/o) - Female - Not “Full Code” code status - Patients with Cancer
Here is a summary slide of key findings of this study.
Higher Odds of Timely #PalliativeCare Consult
- Emergent Admission
- Older age (>80 y/o)
- Female
- Not “Full Code” code status
- Patients with Cancer
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Reviewed 95k+ encounters with 13k who recieved an inpatient #PalliativeCare consultation.
55% of consults happened within the first three days of admission. (19% within 24 hours)
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Next up is Alexander Zirulnik, MD, MPH from Wake Forest presenting on "Who Gets Early Palliative Care?"
Note in this study Early or Timely #PalliativeCare is defined as "consultation within 72 hours" of admission to the hospital.
This study incl adult patients at 16 hospitals in the SE.
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Reports of pain were much more commonly documented than reports of anxiety.
Reports of high severity were more commonly documented than reports of mild or moderate anxiety.
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They took a sample of 500 progress note from 100 patients with clinicians manually annotating 12 symptoms in the history and assessment and plan to create a gold standard dataset for comparison.
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Dr @lpetrillz.bsky.social accepts the #EarlyCareer Investigator award here at @aahpm.bsky.social's #hapc26 for her innovative and revolutionary work in #pallonc and #survonc. Well deserved!! 👏
@realbowtiedoc.bsky.social
@darcyburbage.bsky.social
@ascocancer.bsky.social
@crisbergerot.bsky.social
The goals of this study were to:
Assess the ability of an LLM (GPT4DFCI) to identify
symptoms in narrative visit notes
Evaluate the extent to which these notes reflect symptoms
reported by patients using an EHR-integrated ePRO system
The study looked at 5,049 notes.
#HAPC26
Slide with a cell phone being held in the image on the right Symptom monitoring via ePROs associated with better outcomes • Narrative visit notes are lengthy and difficult to review • Large language models (LLMs) can accurately characterize text, but have rarely been used to identify real-world symptom documentation Basch E, et al. JAMA. 2017;318(2),197–198. Hassett M, et al. JCO. 2024;42(16_suppl),11001.
Rachel Pozzar, PhD, APRN from Northeastern University / Dana Farber Cancer Institute presenting on "Using a Large Language Model to Assess Documentation of Electronically Reported Symptoms in Oncology"
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A soul filling Day 2 of #hapc26, celebrating #hpm innovations for #dementia patients, connecting with #mentees and fellow #SoMe partners and seeing innovative #pallonc approaches to education. You all fill my cup!
@aahpm.bsky.social
@pallidad.bsky.social
@rabrazzak.bsky.social
aahpm AMERICAN ACADEMY OF HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE MEDICINE THE STATE OF THE SCIENCE IN PALLIATIVE CARE RESEARCH MENTORING AWARD Kimberly Johnson, MD MHS
More awards!
Dr Kimberly Johnson receives the AAHPM The State of the Science Palliative Care Research Mentoring Award.
A lot of focus this morning on mentoring and community emphasizing that research is not a solo endeavor.
#HAPC26 #PalliativeCare #Hospice #WomenInStem @aahpm.bsky.social
HPNA Distinguished Nursing Research Award Verna Hendricks-Ferguson, PhD, RN, FPCN®, FAAN
HPNA Hospice & Palliative Nurses Association NEW INVESTIGATOR AWARD Katherine Doyon, PhD, MEd, RN, CHPN®
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE MEDICINE AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN PALLIATIVE CARE Christine Ritchie, MD MSPH FAAHPM
aahpm AMERICAN ACADEMY OF HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE MEDICINE EARLY CAREER INVESTIGATOR AWARD Laura Petrillo, MD
Last day of #HAPC26 in San Diego starting off with research awards and fellows convocation.
“Science at its best is a collective endeavor.” - Christine Ritchie
#Nursing #MedSky #HAPC #Hospice #PalliativeCare #Research
Hard to believe my first annual assembly was eight years ago! I was able to attend thanks to the access fund scholarship. Privileged to be back for #hapc26 presenting two posters with three of our FM residents (one incoming geri fellow, and two incoming palliative fellows).
