March 7–10, 2012 | Colorado Convention Center | Denver, CO

The following papers will be presented during the Annual Assembly. Visit AnnualAssembly.org for more information and to register for the Annual Assembly.

Thursday, March 8 12:15–1:15 pm
The Psychometric Properties of Cancer Multi-Symptom Assessment Instruments: A Comprehensive Review (310-A)
Aynur Aktas, MD, Cleveland Clinic, Harry R. Horvitz Center for Palliative Medicine, Cleveland, OH

Do Percutaneous Gastrostomy Tubes Prevent or Heal Decubitus Ulcers in Advanced Cognitive Impairment? (310-B)
Joan Teno, MD, Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University, Providence, RI

Medications for Comorbidities in Hospice and Palliative Care— Survey of Current Practice Using Statins as a Test Case (310-C)
Danielle Ko, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, MA

The Benefit of Routine Oxygen Administration for Terminally Ill Patients Who Are Near Death (311-A)
Margaret Campbell, PhD RN FPCN, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

High-Flow Nasal Oxygen Use in Palliative Care (311-B)
Allan Ramsay, MD, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, VT

Effective Treatment of Post-Herpetic Neuropathy with Scrambler Therapy, Patient-Specific Neurocutaneous Electrical Stimulation (311-C)
Thomas Smith, MD, Johns Hopkins Health System, Baltimore, MD

Palliative Care in Nursing Home Settings: An Educational Intervention for Nurse Practitioners (312-A)
MariJo Letizia, PhD, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL

Do US Nursing Homes “Build or Buy” Their Palliative Care Expertise? (312-B)
Susan Miller, PhD, Brown University, Providence, RI

Reporting Dementia on Hospice Claims of Nursing Home Residents Dying with Advanced Dementia (312-C)
Susan Miller, PhD, Brown University, Providence, RI

“My Baby Is a Person”: Parents’ Experiences with Life- Threatening Fetal Diagnosis (313-A)
Erin Denney-Koelsch, MD, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

Using a Simulation Lab to Deliver Pediatric Bad News (313-B)
Kelly Komatz, MD MPH, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL

Do Personal Preferences for Life-Sustaining Therapy Influence Medical Decision Making Among Pediatric Intensivists? (313-C)
Jennifer Needle, MD MPH, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR

Beyond Dying: Illness Descriptions of Patients with Advanced Medical Illness (314-A)
Deborah Morris, MD, Durham VA Medical Center/Duke University, Durham, NC

Reports from Ecuador on Continuing Bonds with the Deceased (314-B)
Terrah Foster, PhD RN CPNP, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Giving Life Through an Effective Hospital Palliative Care Service (the Transitions and Palliative Care Therapy [TPCT] Model)—A Novel Approach to Optimize Organ Donation Post Cardiac Death (DCD) (314-C)
Urvi Patel, MD, Mercer University/Medical Center of Central Georgia, Macon, GA

Heart-Related Quality of Life Among Patients Receiving Standard Heart Failure Care: Predictors and Assessment of Change over Time (315-A)
Steven Pantilat, MD FAAHPM, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Prognostic Tools for Congestive Heart Failure (315-B)
Veeravat Taecharvongphairoj, MD, VA Greater Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Palliative Care and Cardiology Integration: Developing a New Model for Improving Palliative Care for Patients Living with Heart Failure (315-C)
Ann Laramee, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, VT

Development of a Prognostic Model for 6-Month Mortality in Older Adults with Declining Health (316-A)
Paul Han, MD MA MPH, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Portland, ME

Physicians’ Attitudes Regarding the Use of Prognostic Models in End-of-Life Care (316-B)
Paul Han, MD MA MPH, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Portland, ME

Forecasting and Foretelling: Association Between Expected Survival Time and Characteristics of Prognosis Communication in Palliative Care Consultations (316-C)
Robert Gramling, MD DSc, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

Cost Savings Vary by Length of Stay for Inpatients Receiving Palliative Care Consult Services (317-A)
Helene Starks, PhD MPH, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Automatically Triggered Palliative Care Consults: Assessments and Plans (317-B)
Paul Glare, MBBS FACP, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Promoting Development of Hospital Palliative Care Services: Finding Common Ground (317-C)
Steven Pantilat, MD FAAHPM, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Strategies for Fulfillment and Success of a Palliative Care Team (318-A)
Kathy Manske, MSN RN CCRN CHPN, Scottsdale Healthcare, Scottsdale, AZ

Differences in Certified and Non-Certified Hospice and Palliative Nursing Assistants Related to Job Satisfaction and Career Outlook (318-B)
Barbara Head, PhD RN CHPN ACSW SW, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

Who Is Attending? End-of-Life Decision Making in the ICU (318-C)
Judith Baggs, PhD RN FAAN, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR

Improving Resident Skills in Code Status Discussions: A Randomized Controlled Trial (319-A)
Rashmi Sharma, MD MHS, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

Preventing the Lost-in-Translation Phenomenon: Piloting a Curriculum for Healthcare Interpreters in End-of-Life Conversations (319-B)
Anne Kinderman, MD, San Francisco General Hospital/University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Development of a Novel, Mandatory, Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Curriculum (319-C)
Mark Pfeifer, MD, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

Friday, March 9
2:15–3:15 pm
What Are Hospice Providers Doing to Reach African Americans? (410-A)
Kimberly Johnson, MD, Duke University, Durham, NC

Acculturation and Preferences About End-of-Life (EOL) Cancer Care Among Individuals of Japanese Ancestry Living in America (410-B)
Masanori Mori, MD, Seirei Hamamatsu Hospital, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Validation of a Chinese Version of the Spiritual Needs Assessment for Patients (SNAP) (410-C)
Rashmi Sharma, MD MHS, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

Benzodiazepines and the Management of Dyspnea in Palliative Care Patients (411-A)
Patama Gomutbutra, MD, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Rapid Treatments for Depression and Anxiety (411-B) Scott Irwin, MD PhD, The Institute for Palliative Medicine at San
Diego Hospice, San Diego, CA

“ABH Gel” (Ativan®, Lorazepam; Benadryl®, Diphenhydramine; Haldol®, Haloperidol) Is Not Absorbed from the Skin of Normal Volunteers so It Cannot Be Effective Against Nausea (411-C)
Thomas Smith, MD, Johns Hopkins Health System, Baltimore, MD

Do the Participants in Fatigue Treatment Trials Share Similar Symptom Burden as Fatigued Advanced Cancer Patients in the Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic in a Comprehensive Cancer Center? (412-A)
Huai Cheng, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Comparing Symptom Burden in Patients with Metastatic and Nonmetastatic Cancer (412-B)
Michael Rabow, MD FAAHPM, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Unmet Need for Symptom Management in a Newly Diagnosed Population of Lung and Colorectal Cancer Patients (412-C)
Anne Walling, MD PhD, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA

The Relationship Between Persistent Pain and Overall Mortality: Does Greater Pain Indicate Shorter Life? (413-A)
Joseph Shega, MD, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Adrenal Insufficiency as a Possible Contributor to Pain in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) (413-B)
Lawrence Solomon, MD, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Vitamin D Deficiency as a Risk Factor for Pain: Prevalence in the Setting of Advanced Malignancy (413-C)
Lawrence Solomon, MD, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Decisional Aides to Train Non-Psychiatrists in Evidence-Based Use of Antipsychotics for Dementia (414-A)
Michelle Weckmann, MD MS, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

How Elderly Patients and Nephrologists Discuss the Trajectory of Kidney Disease (414-B)
Jane Schell, MD, Duke University, Durham, NC

Michelle Weckmann, MD MS, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA How Elderly Patients and Nephrologists Discuss the Trajectory of Kidney Disease (414-B)
Jane Schell, MD, Duke University, Durham, NC

Identification and Validation of Premortem Surge: A Delphi Study (414-C)
Tanya Schreiber, DNS PHCNS-BC ACHPN, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA

Advanced Directives and Advanced Care Planning in Pediatrics: Where Are We Now? (415-A)
Margo Hoover-Regan, MD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Nature and Intensity of Pediatric Inpatient End-of-Life Care in the United States (415-B)
Chris Feudtner, MD PhD MPH, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Family Management After Sudden Loss (415-C)
Debra Wiegand, PhD RN, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

A Statewide Intervention to Improve Access to Hospice and Palliative Care for Seriously Ill Medicaid Enrollees (416-A)
Annette Beyea, DO, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Palliative Care Needs in Rural Complex Chronic Illness (416-B)
Joy Buck, PhD, West Virginia University, Martinsburg, WV

The Diverse Landscape of Outpatient Palliative Care Practices: There Are Serious Problems Once Patients Go Home (416-C)
Alexander Smith, MD MS MPH, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Surveying New Frontiers: Palliative Care in the Trauma ICU (417-A)
Lori Olson, MD, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN

A Retrospective Case Series of Completed Suicides in Hospice (417-B)
Nathan Fairman, MD, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA

A Retrospective Case Series of Suicide Attempts Leading to Hospice Admission (417-C)
Nathan Fairman, MD, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA

Screening for Palliative Care: Implementation of the NCCN Guideline at a Comprehensive Cancer Center (418-A)
Paul Glare, MBBS FACP, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Impact of a Systematic Palliative Care Screening Program Across a Tertiary Care Hybrid Health System (418-B)
Kirsten Edmiston, MD, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Fairfax, VA

The Palliative Care Quality Network: Exploring the Feasibility of a Palliative Care Clinical Quality Improvement and Translational Research Collaborative (418-C)
Steven Pantilat, MD FAAHPM, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

National Survey to Assess Geriatric Fellows’ Training in Providing Hospice and Palliative Care (419-A)
Qing Cao, MD, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

Development of a Palliative Care Fellows Quality Project Utilizing the PDSA Cycle: The CASH Paradigm for Evaluating Existential Distress (419-B)
Laurel Lyckholm, MD, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine/Massey Cancer Center, Richmond, VA

Medical Students as Hospice Volunteers: Influence of an Early Experiential Training Program in End-of-Life Care Education (419-C)
Melissa Mott, Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL