Physician Biases Toward People with Disability and Implications for Care Delivery
Examines findings from a nationwide survey on physicians' attitudes toward people with disability.
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April 2021
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Supporting Acute Advance Care Planning with Precise, Timely Mortality Risk Predictions
Implementing a predictive model in acute settings can more reliably identify patients with high mortality risk, which can assist providers in prioritizing advance care planning.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Building a Culture of Person-Centered Care: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go
Researchers share their insights on whether older adults’ health care preferences are being taken into account and how health systems can become more person-centered.
Blog
February 2021
Evidence for the 4Ms: Interactions and Outcomes Across the Care Continuum
The 4Ms approach developed for the Age-Friendly Health System model — what matters, medication, mentation, mobility — has a robust evidence base for providing quality care to older adults.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Interventions at Hospital Discharge to Guide Caregivers in Medication Management for People Living with Dementia: A Systematic Review
Medication management interventions that support caregivers of people with dementia at care transitions can help reduce readmissions, caregiver burden, and use of high-risk medication.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Physicians’ Perceptions of People with Disability and Their Health Care
Many physicians report low confidence in caring for patients with disability and negative perceptions about quality of life with a disability, which may reflect biased views that potentially contribute to persistent health disparities.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Implementation of Specialist Palliative Care and Outcomes for Hospitalized Patients with Dementia
Patients with dementia are more likely to be discharged to hospice from hospitals that offer palliative care programs.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Meeting the Challenge of Caring for Persons Living with Dementia and Their Care Partners and Caregivers: A Way Forward
Evaluates the evidence on interventions for people living with dementia, their care partners, and caregivers to help identify what interventions are ready for broad implementation.
Brief/Report
Building Authentic and Mutually Beneficial Partnerships with Complex Care Consumers
Outlines key steps health systems can take to build relationships with complex care consumers.
Play
January 2021
Tracking Progress on Person-Centered Care for Older Adults: How Are We Doing?
Reveals inequities in how aging adults’ care preferences are taken into account based on race/ethnicity, income, health insurance status, and other variables.
Brief/Report
Medical Care at Home Comes of Age
Provides an overview of home-based medical care models, the patients that they serve, and their robust evidence base.
Brief/Report
Medicare-Medicaid Integration: A Reference Guide to Emerging Evidence and Technical Assistance Tools
This reference guide summarizes a set of curated resources to help key stakeholders better understand both the needs of the dually eligible population and emerging evidence and practical approaches for advancing Medicare-Medicaid integration.
Implementation Tool
Adopting a Trauma-Informed Approach to Improve Patient Care: Foundational Organizational-Level Steps
Offers practical recommendations for providers and other health care organizations interested in taking foundational steps to become more trauma-informed.
Play
November 2020
Supporting Family Caregivers Providing Complex Care
Includes promising practices, recommendations, vignettes, and other helpful tools to assist health systems in supporting family caregivers providing complex care.
Implementation Tool
Practice Considerations for Trauma-Informed Care at End of Life
Applying principles of trauma-informed care for patients at end of life.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Exploring Best Practices in Serious Illness Care for Medicare Advantage and Accountable Care Organizations
Highlights experiences from the Center to Advance Palliative Care’s Medicare Advantage and ACO Learning Communities with strategies for improving serious illness care, as well as resources that health plans and ACOs can use to drive better value and improve the quality of life for those living with serious illness.
Blog
September 2020
Trauma-Informed Telehealth in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond
Trauma-informed telehealth can help mitigate negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Peer-Reviewed Article
Implementing Best Practices in Dementia Care
Clinical tools, training resources, and case studies of evidence-based care models that support people living with dementia and their caregivers.
Implementation Tool
Driving Improvements in Hospital Care through Palliative Care Quality Incentives
Describes how two health plans — Anthem, Inc. and Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield —organizations introduced a palliative care measure into their hospital value-based payment programs, which has led to significant improvements in access to palliative care for their seriously ill members.
Blog
June 2020
Empowering Goals of Care for Vulnerable Communities During COVID-19
Details the proactive approach of Cambridge Health Alliance, a public ambulatory care and hospital system in the Boston area, to initiate goals of care conversations with high-risk patients in their respiratory clinic.
Blog
June 2020