CBSSM Seminar: Chithra Perumalswami, MD, MSc

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Wed, May 23, 2018, 3:00pm
Location: 
NCRC, Building 10, Room G065

Chithra Perumalswami, MD, MSc
CBSSM Postdoctoral Fellow

 

Title:
Defining High Quality Health Care at the End of Life: Obesity in Hospice

Brief abstract:
Little is known about the challenges of providing high quality health care at the end of life for patients with obesity.  We conducted 22 semi-structured telephone interviews with hospice medical directors from each major geographic region of the US to understand physicians’ clinical and administrative perspectives regarding the effects of obesity on quality of hospice care for patients, caregivers, nurses, and other members of the hospice team.