What if a patient can't afford hospice? Which medications do you deprescribe when on hospice? What happens when patients who are on hospice return to the hospital or ED?

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Show notes & Transcript

Hospice 101 Episode 1

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Timestamps:

A hospitalized patient elects to enroll in hospice, now what?

What treatments are typically covered by hospice?

What medications to continue and discontinue?

Code status in hospice

Approaching the hospice patient coming back to the hospital

Hospice enrollment and re-enrollment is voluntary.

Tags: IMCore, CoreIM, primary care, palliative care, end-of-life, oncology nurse practitioner, pharmacist, physician assistant

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