Meredith MacMartin

THANK YOU! The use of opioids for sedation in the MICU is so troubling for many reasons and I'm so glad to see this getting called out.

YESSSS

Dr. Meredith A. MacMartin: Cuts to Medicaid stress a system that serves all I AM a hospice and palliative care physician and New Hampshire native, writing to draw people’s attention to one aspect of the cuts to Medicaid proposed in “One Big Beautiful

There's plenty of harm that will be done by the #OBBB - here's one that isn't getting coverage: low income older adults at the end of their lives. #Medicaid cuts hurt EVERYONE. #hospice #PalliativeCare #EndofLife

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New Study on Integrating PREMs to Assess Care Quality - CAPC - News Bites Study finds that using PREMs in routine inpatient palliative care helps to identify patient and family concerns and opportunities for improvement.

Thanks to @capcpalliative.bsky.social for adding our paper on the use of PREMs in inpatient palliative to their News Bites! CC: @hexlab.bsky.social

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#PatientExperience #PalliativeCare #Hospice

Improving Critical Care Communication with the Serious Illness Conversation Guide at an Academic Medical Center Professional societies have called for methods to improve serious illness communication training for critical care fellows and faculty. The Serious Il…

Excited to share new work from colleagues at @dartmouthhealth.bsky.social on improving communication in the #ICU. I especially like the detailed results which indicate which domains of quality communication had the best (and least) uptake! #PalliativeCare
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So deeply proud of our team's work here. Shoutout to @macmartinmd.bsky.social for leading this paper. And to @dartmouthhealth.bsky.social for creating space for us to innovate and delivery truly patient-centered care when folks need it most, during serious illness. #hpm

Very very happy that this is out in the world! Proud of our team and our work to push measurement and improvement of #patientexperience in serious illness! #Hapc #palliativecare #hospice

Dr. Catherine Saunders delivered an inspiring Grand Rounds at Dartmouth Heath! She shared patient-centered strategies for measuring and improving serious-illness care experiences, including consideRATE questions and visit agenda-setting. Exciting patent engagement work! 🐝 🐝 🐝

The HEx Lab team is making great progress on the Agenda Setting in Kidney Disease (ASK) Study! Interviews and ethnographic observation well underway! Studying ways to help CKD patients self-advocate! NIDDK: K01DK139400

A system in which social determinants of health are meaningfully addressed "upstream". There is SO MUCH unnecessary suffering that happens as a result of poverty and it's like putting a finger in the dike over and over.

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Hi #PalliativeCare friends, I'm piggy-backing on #hapc25 to ask a clinical question: For those of you who work in inpatient or #hospice settings AND have access to palliative sedation, are you required to obtain written informed consent before implementing palliative sedation? Would love to know!!

Caregiver-Reported Quality in Hospices Owned by Private Equity Firms and Publicly Traded Companies This study compares differences in caregiver-reported hospice quality across categories of ownership, including for-profit private equity firm (PEF)/publicly traded company (PTC)–owned and non-PEF/PTC...

More evidence that private equity and hospice are a poor mix Hospices owned by private equity provide inferior care compared to non-profits across multiple measures
Well-being of our loved one at end of life should not be sacrificed for investor profit
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Way too much fun with the lab and collaborators at the #HExLab Holiday Edition.

Wrote nearly a full solid first draft of a paper about using #consideRATE in our freestanding hospice and palliative care center today. Excited to share more about using patient-centered experience measures to improve care. #prem #palliative #hpm Go @hexlab.bsky.social

I've fallen off due to stress elsewhere but still plugging away and revising the manuscript I finished this month. You've done amazing work!

ID and palliative care want to hear about your pets!

I love being part of this team! It's a real gift to work with a group of people committed to rigorous study of complex topics like #patientexperience. Also we have a LOT of fun together ❤️ #seriousillness

We're making progress! A lot has changed just in the last decade and I see a lot of reason for hope ❤️

I'll be honest, this is not surprising to me 🤣

Thank you for this link, it represents a lot of my misgivings too even with the differences in our systems for end of life care. What a beautiful idea to think of hospice as a wellness center - amazing reframe of our work! #palliativecare #hapc

Started the day with a great talk by Yael Schenker, and have been thinking about this quote since. We're still not in a place where skilled end of life care is just offered to all who need it, but we're getting closer. I'm grateful to be part of that effort #palliativecare #hapc #hpm

Sent out my manuscript draft to co-authors today! Have a long list of projects to tackle next so now off to think about which one is next 🤔

Big thanks for keeping #NaMaWriMo alive here ❤️💪

I'm here! 👀

Finished my manuscript draft yesterday! This week will be for revising for flow and word count, and updating/verifying all my cites. Aiming to send to co-authors at the end of the week!

I'm old and tired and not sure I'm going to still be awake but I'm really looking forward to reading it over tomorrow ❤️

SO GLAD to see you here! It's like old home days and I'm HERE FOR IT!

Gahhh I've missed you too!! Time to reconstitute Pocket Mentors??

<3 to you friend, I'm overjoyed to be reuniting with so many familiar people!

I finally made the move and in just a short time it feels like MedTwitter USED to be - I've really missed having a global community to learn and share with. Thanks to @ctsinclair.bsky.social and @ehahnmd.bsky.social for the nudge to get over here. Looking forward to #hapc chat tomorrow!