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Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. In contrast to geriatrics, the evidence base for palliative care lagged clinical growth, in part because palliative care has no centralized “home” at the National Institutes of Health. The National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC)and Palliative Care Research Cooperative (PCRC)were founded in part to meet this need.
Today we interview Kate Courtright, a critical care and palliative care physician-researcher who conducts trials of palliative care. Kate’s journey is in a way emblematic of the lack of centralized funding for palliative care: she’s received funding from three separate NIH institutes, the NPCRC, and been involved in the PCRC.
We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as:
We cover a lot of ground! Working on a mystery. Going wherever it leads. Runnin down a dream…
-@AlexSmithMD
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Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. In contrast to geriatrics, the evidence base for palliative care lagged clinical growth, in part because palliative care has no centralized “home” at the National Institutes of Health. The National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC)and Palliative Care Research Cooperative (PCRC)were founded in part to meet this need.
Today we interview Kate Courtright, a critical care and palliative care physician-researcher who conducts trials of palliative care. Kate’s journey is in a way emblematic of the lack of centralized funding for palliative care: she’s received funding from three separate NIH institutes, the NPCRC, and been involved in the PCRC.
We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as:
We cover a lot of ground! Working on a mystery. Going wherever it leads. Runnin down a dream…
-@AlexSmithMD
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