The Impact of Teaching End-of-Life Prognostication: A Pre-Post Survey-Based Interventional Study (S747)

An abstract of a study by Patel et al providing internal medicine house staff with a pre and post-educational survey to determine their ability to accurately prognosticate five common end-stage diseases is presented. Their pre-post intervention survey-based study demonstrates no significant increase...

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Published inJournal of pain and symptom management Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 435 - 436
Main Authors Patel, Jayshil, MD, Keuter, Tucker, BS, Bear, Alexandria
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Madison Elsevier Inc 01.02.2017
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Anesthesia & Perioperative Care
End of life decisions
Health education
Internal medicine
Intervention
Medical prognosis
Pain Medicine
Palliative care
Polls & surveys
Staff
Teaching
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Summary:An abstract of a study by Patel et al providing internal medicine house staff with a pre and post-educational survey to determine their ability to accurately prognosticate five common end-stage diseases is presented. Their pre-post intervention survey-based study demonstrates no significant increases in all house staff scores. PGY-2-4 post-intervention scores improved significantly.
ISSN:0885-3924
1873-6513
DOI:10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2016.12.257