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Hospice and Palliative Care

This session will provide an interactive discussion of key criteria differentiating hospice care from palliative care and the imperative need for earlier palliative care referrals. It will provide a level of improved comfortability for the primary care and specialty providers to initiate earlier conversations on goals of care and advance directives and engage the patient and their families in health care decision planning surrounding quality of life preferences conversations.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify the role of palliative care medicine through the continuum of a patient’s care
  • Summarize the spectrum of palliative care consultation services and encourage and implement early palliative care consultation referral process
  • Evaluate the philosophy and criteria for hospice care benefit referral
  • Differentiate between hospice care and palliative care
This program is provided by ACOFP for educational purposes only. The material presented is not intended to represent the sole or best medical interventions for the discussed diagnoses, but rather is intended to present the opinions of the authors or presenters that may be helpful to other practitioners. Participants engaging in this medical education program do so with the full knowledge that they waive any claim they may have against ACOFP for reliance on any information presented during these educational activities.

The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians.

The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1.5 AOA Category 1-A credits and will report continuing medical education (CME) credits commensurate with the physician’s participation in this program.

The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

ACOFP designates this enduring activity for 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.