Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

Faculty, residents, fellows, and community physicians in General Internal Medicine and subspecialties.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

Describe the evidence supporting palliative care.
List one medication to treat uremic pruritus and one medication to treat cholestatic pruritus
Name 3 concerns with use of antipsychotics for distressing symptoms of delirium.
Identify 3 factors associated with accuracy of MD prognostic predictions after ICU admission.

Suggested Additional Reading:

Detsky ME, Harhay MO, Bayard DF, et al. Discriminative accuracy of physician and nurse predictions for survival and functional outcomes 6 months after an ICU admission. JAMA 2017;317(21):2187-2195.

Agar MR, Lawlor PG, Quinn S., et al. Efficacy of oral risperidone, haloperidol, or placebo for symptoms of delirium among patients in palliative care: A randomized clinical trail. JAMA Internal Medicine. 2017;177(1):34-42.

Kavalieratos D, Corbelli J, Zhang D, et al. Association between palliative care and patient and caregiver outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA 2016; 316(20):2104-2114.

Authors:

Yael Schenker, MD MAS — Associate Professor of Medicine Director, Palliative Care Research Division of General Internal Medicine Section of Palliative Care and Medical Ethics
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.

No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

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