Wednesday, January 19, 2011
1:30-2:30 PM Eastern

Sponsored by the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC).
 
This audio conference will review the pros and cons of patient or disease-based referral criteria (aka triggers) as well as the implications for improving primary palliative care services within hospitals.
 
Learning Objectives:

• List common patient or disease based consultation criteria in both ICU and non-ICU settings
• Describe pros and cons to using a patient or disease-based criteria for palliative care consultations
• Learn key steps for integrating consultation criteria into a system-wide effort to improve primary palliative care

Grant-funding for New York State: New York State hospitals, and hospices with an established hospital palliative care program partnership, are eligible to enroll at no cost. This funding is made possible by a grant awarded to CAPC from the New York State Health Foundation.  Funding from this grant is available for this audio conference.   For more information visit www.capc.org/grantees

To learn more and register, go to: http://www.capc.org/support-from-capc/audio-conf/01-19-11/