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Project Title:
First International Conference on Medical Emergency Teams (METS)
Funding Agency:
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Total Project Period:
Jan 01, 2005 – Sep 30, 2005
Principal Investigator:
Michael A DeVita, MD
Project Summary:
Investigators with experience in and commitment to palliative care are proposing multimodality interventions to integrate palliative care into symptom management and provider/family communication on four tertiary care ICUs. A pre-post intervention design will evaluate use of a computer-based system to identify a subset of patients with high-level needs for palliative care, and initiate a computer-based, symptom-focused palliative care needs-prompting system directed to nurses and physicians practicing on the four units. A palliative care physician-nurse team will introduce on-unit palliative care. Focus will include symptom control, provider/family communications, and preparation of family members for advance care planning conferences.
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