Palliative Medication Management

This webinar will review practical tips for ensuring your patients’ medication regimens are optimal for seriously ill patients. We will review medication selection, identifying nonessential medications, and how to safely discontinue medications for seriously ill patients. This program will also address formulary medication selection for seriously ill patients with commonly occurring symptoms. Lastly, we review the concept of "relatedness" as patients transition to the hospice benefit.
Objectives:
-Examine medication appropriateness and rational prescribing
-Identify medications that are appropriate for cost-effective symptom management
-Review common classes of non-essential medications and how to safely discontinue them
-Determine hospice drug coverage when given patient-specific information, including diagnosis codes and terminal prognosis

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