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Palliative Medicine Research Group @WakePMRC

Serious Illness & Palliative Medicine Research Group striving to improve the quality of care for seriously ill patients & their families

Joined December 2020
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Jennifer Gabbard@Docgabby35
13 Nov 2025
Grateful for the opportunity to present at Grand Rounds at @MayoClinic this week! Honored to share our work using tech & EHR data to identify high-risk older adults and support goal-informed care.Excited about future collaborations.Thank you for the warm welcome! @wakeforestmed
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Marlon Aliberti@marlon_aliberti
3 May 2025
🚨Undiagnosed Dementia in #Hospitals🚨 Our study @AGSJournal validates the informant-based Clinical Dementia Rating to detect preexisting #dementia & cognitive impairment when patients are too sick to assess. A step to safer acute & dementia care: agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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Jennifer Gabbard@Docgabby35
1 May 2025
Proud of my mentee, @EFrechman & our research team on our new publication. We validated the EOL-CI in adults ≥65, showing strong performance & the value of local calibration. 📖 academic.oup.com/jamia/advan… #PalliativeCare #Informatics #JAMIA #Geriatrics

External validation of a proprietary risk model for 1-year mortality in community-dwelling adults...

AbstractObjective. To examine the discrimination, calibration, and algorithmic fairness of the Epic End of Life Care Index (EOL-CI).Materials and Methods.

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10 Apr 2025
📢NEW NLA & @AmerGeriatrics expert clinical consensus on managing #hypercholesterolemia in adults older than 75 years without a history of #ASCVD. Read the article now: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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JAGS@AGSJournal
31 Mar 2025
The Implementation of Frailty Assessment Tools in the Acute Care Setting: A Scoping Review. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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Thomas Gill@MrDisability
3 Apr 2025
Identifying Factors Associated With Diminished Active Life Expectancy Among Older Adults m.yale.edu/c453 - serious illnesses and injuries are the major driver of active and disabled life expectancy in older persons

Identifying Factors Associated With Diminished Active Life Expectancy Among Older Adults

In a new Yale study, published in JAMA Network Open, researchers examined the differences in active and disabled life expectancy among older people who

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Ken Covinsky@geri_doc
11 Mar 2025
Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial??? What on earth is that????!!!! A complicated study design in which an intervention is rolled out at different times across sites Excellent article will help you understand and make sense of this design. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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Ken Covinsky@geri_doc
4 Mar 2025
How do persons with dementia and caregivers make decisions about aging in place vs moves to long term care. Terrific study using qualitative methods Decisions do not feel like a choice, are made under imperfect conditions, usually reactive not proactive agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…

“What choice do we have?” Reactive and proactive decision‐making for aging in place with dementia

Background Promoting options for aging in place (AIP) has broad appeal to policymakers and professionals providing services to persons living with dementia (PWD). However, the benefits or burdens...

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Ariela Orkaby MD MPH@DrAROrkaby
24 Feb 2025
Can an eFI be applied to a healthcare system, with incomplete data? Yes! Here we applied the @VAResearch VA-FI to the @MassGenBrigham health record system. Congratulations @bkocharmd @RitchieCS @rbernack and team! agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wi… @drandyclegg @AGSJournal @BrighamAging

Application of an Electronic Frailty Index to Identify High‐Risk Older Adults Using Electronic...

Background Measurement of frailty is limited in clinical practice. Existing electronic frailty indices (eFIs) are derived from routine primary care encounters, with near-complete health condition...

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Jennifer Gabbard@Docgabby35
16 Jan 2025
Thrilled to share our latest work published in @AcadEmergMed! Our team developed the ED Early Mortality Model (EDEM), which outperforms REMS in predicting in-hospital mortality using routine ED data—advancing shared decision-making @JustinBrooten doi.org/10.1111/acem.15096

Emergency department early mortality model for patients admitted after presenting to a tertiary...

Objectives Identifying patients in the emergency department (ED) at higher risk for in-hospital mortality can inform shared decision making and goals-of-care discussions. Electronic health record...

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JAGS@AGSJournal
13 Dec 2024
The study highlights that nearly 6 out of 10 older adults were regular users of the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) over a 5-year period between 2018 and 2022. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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Eric Widera, MD@EWidera
29 Nov 2024
A reminder after celebrating Thanksgiving dinner: many individuals with dementia are placed on thickened liquid diets that impacts quality of life with no good evidence that it benefits them. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…

Thinning Evidence for Thickened Liquid Diets in Dementia and Dysphagia

A little less than a decade ago, our local hospice and palliative care team decided to attempt what we called a “thickened liquid challenge.” This simple challenge was intended not as a mere one-off...

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Ariela Orkaby MD MPH@DrAROrkaby
26 Nov 2024
What is the state of Frailty in medical specialties? As part of @NIHAging @ClinSTARCC we review current evidence in @AGSJournal. @KWyshamMD @NamrataRheum @AdamFayeMD @andreashermanNY @LoewenthalMd @bkocharmd @JeremyWalstonMD @GlobalFrailty @shisadoctor agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…

Frailty integration in medical specialties: Current evidence and suggested strategies from the...

See related Editorial by Jacqueline M. McMillan and Julian Falutz in this issue.

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Eric Widera, MD@EWidera
16 Nov 2024
From pre-diabetes to Alzheimer’s disease in the cognitively normal, there is an ongoing push to label healthy individuals as sick. Who benefits from this and who is harmed? One of my favorite med journalism articles of 2024 dives into the debate. 🧵 1/4 latimes.com/science/story/20…

Inside the plan to diagnose Alzheimer’s in people with no memory problems — and who stands to...

People without memory problems could be diagnosed with Alzheimer's under a plan by an influential scientific panel dominated by members with ties to drug companies.

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Jennifer Gabbard@Docgabby35
1 Nov 2024
I can’t believe I’ve been selected for the Early Career Investigator Award by @AAHPM ! 🎉 A heartfelt thank you to my amazing mentors, supportive patients and families, and our dedicated palliative care team for making this possible. Feeling honored! 🙏 #AAHPM #PalliativeResearch
AAHPM@AAHPM
1 Nov 2024
So proud to announce the 2025 AAHPM award winners! Your dedication to the #hapc field does not go unnoticed. Learn more about these incredible individuals and their impactful contributions here: aahpm.org/about-aahpm/awards…
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Congrats to our team on their new publication, The Last Visit: Saying Goodbye to Patients, offering compassionate guidance for final conversations in patient care. Read more: mypcnow.org/fast-fact/the-la…

'The Last Visit': Saying Goodbye to Patients | Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin

Background: As patients approach the end of their lives, finding the right words to bid farewell and acknowledge the conclusion of their relationship can be a daunting task for health care professi...

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Jennifer Gabbard@Docgabby35
5 Oct 2024
🌟 New publication alert! 🌟 Our latest narrative review unveils a conceptual model emphasizing the vital role of chaplains in providing emotional and spiritual support .Read more here: liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/j…

Improving Outcomes for ICU Family Members: The Role of Spiritual Care - Alexia M. Torke, Shelley...

Having a family member hospitalized in the intensive care unit (ICU) can be a stressful experience for family members, encompassing both psychological and spiri...

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Michael Fralick@FralickMike
29 Sep 2024
Need a power/sample size calculation for a study or upcoming grant? Led by @emil_hs, we built a simple, free, and pain-free (!) shiny app. feedback welcome plz share with interested parties. check it out: powercalc.ca 🦾🤓 @sholzberg @kieranrcampbell @JeffsLianne @aaron_drucker @WallisCJD @NEJMEvidence @JonZipursky @ChanaSacks
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Big congrats to @EFrechman for her important new publication in @JPSMjournal! Her research highlights the need for person-centered ACP interventions for low-income older adults .read here: jpsmjournal.com/article/S088…

Essential Advance Care Planning Intervention Features in Low-Income Communities: A Qualitative Study

Older adults with low socioeconomic status (SES) participate in advance care planning (ACP) at lower rates than those with higher SES. Community feedback is an essential component of intervention...

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Thrilled to see the results of the REACH PC study published in @JAMA_current! 📢 Findings show no difference between telehealth and in-person #PalliativeCare, highlighting the potential to expand access through telehealth.jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…

Telehealth vs In-Person Early Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer

This randomized, multisite, comparative effectiveness trial investigates whether early palliative care delivered via video or in-person visits demonstrated equivalent effects on quality of life for...

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