Princeton Conference XVII (2010)
Examining End of Life Care: Creating Sensible Public Policies for Patients, Providers, and Payers
May 19-20, 2010
The Seventeenth Princeton Conference was held at The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, NJ on May 19-20, 2010. At this conference, nationally recognized experts spoke about several key issues pertaining to end of life care, including variation in care, the role of nursing homes, economic and ethical decision-making frameworks, and examples of promising new practices and policies.
There were a total of 7 sessions, which included:
- Chronic Disease in the 21st Century Requires a New Perspective on End of Life Care
- Difference in Approach, Cost, and Ethical Framework in the US and other Countries
- Variations in End of Life Services and Costs: What is the Role of Individual and Provider Preferences and Resource Availability?
- Nursing Home Patient Readmissions to Acute Care Setting: What is the Role of Medicaid and Medicare in Ensuring High Quality End of Life Care?
- Ethical Issues Surrounding End of Life Healthcare: Informed Decision Making, Spending, and Our Nation’s Inability to Discuss Mortality.
- Provider, Delivery System, Caregiver, and Insurer End of Life Considerations and Innovations: What are the Promising Practices and Current Challenges?
- Next Steps in Creating End of Life Policies
Agenda
Princeton Conference XVII Agenda
Policy Brief
Princeton Conference XVII Policy Brief: Examining End of Life Care: Creating Sensible Public Policies for
Patients, Providers, and Payers
Findings from the 17th Princeton Conference, May 19-20, 2010
By Jeffrey Sussman, MPH, MA, Palmira Santos, PhD, and Stuart Altman, PhD
Publication Date: September 2010
Presentations
Perspectives: "End of Life" Care
Joanne Lynn, M.D.
Clinical Improvement Expert
Colorado Foundation for Medical Care
Senior Fellow
National Academy of Social Insurance
Trends in Medicare Payments for Beneficiaries in the Last Year of Life, 1978-2006
Jim Lubitz, MPH
Consultant
Getting to “No” You: Ethical Issues in End of Life Care
Norman Fost, M.D., MPH
Director, Program in Bioethics
University of Wisconsin - Madison
The aggressiveness of cancer care near the end of life: Is it a quality of care issue?
Craig Earle, M.D., MSc
Director, Health Services Research Program
Cancer Care Ontario and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Transforming End-of-Life Care: The British Approach
Bradford H. Gray, Ph.D
Senior Fellow
Urban Institute
What do we know about end-of-life cancer care?
David Goodman, M.D., MS
Professor of Pediatrics and of Health Policy
Director, Center for Health Policy Research
The Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Dartmouth Medical School
Variation in End of Life Services: Is it the Providers or the Patients?
Amber E. Barnato, M.D., MPH. MS
Center for Research on Health Care
University of Pittsburgh Medical School
Care Transitions: Perspectives on palliative and end-of-life care
Thomedi G. Ventura, MS, MSPH
Health Data Analyst, Evaluation Specialist
Colorado Foundation for Medical Care
Improving End-of-Life Care by Reducing Avoidable Hospitalizations of NH Residents
Joseph G. Ouslander, M.D.,
Professor of Clinical Biomedical Science
Associate Dean for Geriatric Programs
Charles E. Schmidt College of Biomedical Science
Florida Atlantic University
Improving End of Life Care for Nursing Home Residents
David G. Stevenson, SM, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Health Policy
Harvard Medical School
Mechanisms to Promote High Quality End of Life Care
Shari Ling, M.D.
Office of Standards and Quality
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Funders Improving Care at the End-of-Life
Karen Feinstein, Ph.D.
President & CEO
Jewish Healthcare Foundation
POLST: Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment. Honoring Treatment Preference Across Settings of Care
Susan Tolle, M.D.
Cornelia Hayes Stevens Chair
Director, Center for Ethics in Health Care
Professor of Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University
Ready Today for the Future of Health Care and Optimal Hospice Care
Randall S. Krakauer, M.D., FACP, FACR
Head of Medicare Medical Management
Aetna
Transforming VA Care at the End of Life
Tom Edes, M.D.
Director
Home and Community-Based Care
Veterans Health Administration
Building On Success: innovations in End-of-Life Care
Angie Truesdale
Director, Public Policy
NHPCO Hospice Action Network
The Next Workplace Management Challenge: End-of-Life Issues
J. Brent Pawlecki, M.D.
Corporate Medical Director
Pitney Bowes
We Can't Fix the End of Life by Merely Fixing Health Care
Ira Byock, M.D.
Director, Palliative Medicine
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
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