Sean Morrison

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GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast · Sean Morrison on the Current State of Palliative Care · 18 Apr 2017 podcast

So I'm actually not terribly surprised by that finding,

although some of my colleagues are.

That's a really good question.

So let me step back and sort of take it from sort of the beginning of our report and just sort of walk through what I would consider to be the big changes, the big trends.

I am cautiously optimistic that

that what we're going to see is the complete interdisciplinary team moving from 44% up until well over two-thirds of hospitals.

I think there are always going to be hospitals that can't support a full team, largely because of their size, that if you're a small hospital,

you may not have that type of patient volume.

But I would like to see the complete interdisciplinary team number move above 50% and into the 60s.

And I think that will happen.

I think that's a realistic goal for us.

I also think that

consistent with what we've seen from 2009 to 2015, that the number of patients who are going to be dying in the hospital, I think I hope to see decline as we do a better job of allowing people to be cared for in the setting of their choice.

I think the number of people we see with cancer is probably going to stay around 20-25% because that's where

That's the number of deaths that occur because of cancer in this country.

And clearly what I would really like to see is that number of programs who have a board certified physician or advanced practice nurse in palliative medicine be at 100 percent or at least 95 percent.

I can't think of

any other specialty where we would accept the fact that, for example, somebody's practicing cardiology, works in a cardiovascular institute, but is not board certified in cardiovascular medicine.

So that's number two, is the full interdisciplinary team.

And then I think the other big area where I would like to see growth, and I expect to see growth, is in the penetration rate.

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