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Background: COVID-19 significantly impacted care delivery to seriously ill patients, especially around including family and caregivers in patient care.
Aim: Based on routinely collected bereaved family reports, actionable practices were identified to maintain and improve care in the last month of life, with potential application to all seriously ill patients.
Design: The Veterans Health Administration's Bereaved Family Survey is used nationally to gather routine feedback from families and caregivers of recent in-patient decedents; the survey includes multiple structured items as well as space for open narrative responses.
"It's Not Us Versus Them": Building Cross-Disciplinary Relationships in the Perioperative Period.
J Pain Symptom Manage
April 2023
VA Quality Improvement Resource Center for Palliative Care (K.A.L., M.M., K.F.G.), Menlo Park, California, USA; Stanford Medicine, Primary Care and Population Health (K.A.L., K.F.G.), Stanford, California, USA. Electronic address:
Context: Palliative care (PC) interventions improve quality outcomes for surgical patients, yet they are underutilized in the perioperative period. Developing cross-disciplinary provider relationships increases PC consults. However, the attributes of collaborative relationships and how they evolve are unclear.
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