Hospice and Palliative Care
Nonmember Price: 60.00
Member Price: 45.00
60.00
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
The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians. ACOFP designates this program for a maximum number of 1.5 AOA Category 1-A credit and will report CME with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.

This program is sponsored 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. Attendees participating 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 Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

This enduring activity is designated for 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.

To access this course please visit: https://www.pathlms.com/acofp/courses/53391/sections/60560