Fast Facts and Concepts

Welcome to the home of Palliative Care Fast Facts and Concepts—originally published by EPERC since 2000. Fast Facts are edited by Sean Marks, MD; Associate Professor of Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

#403
Serotonin Syndrome in Palliative Care
  • Ronald Chow BMSc
  • Dmitry Kozhevnikov DO
  • Elizabeth Horn Prsic MD
#404
Depression in End-Stage Renal Disease
  • Yara Moustafa MD, PhD1
  • Molly Kilpatrick MD2
  • Michael Schuh Pharm D3
  • Maisha Robinson MD, MS2,4
#405
Principles of Pediatric Palliative Care
  • Alana Thomas MD
  • Jared Rubenstein MD
  • Jill Ann Jarrell MD, MPH
#406
Communication Strategies for Providing Palliative Care via Telemedicine
  • Brook Calton MD, MHS
#407
Preoperative Frailty Assessment
  • Lauren E. Sigler MD
  • Eva Reitschuler-Cross MD
  • Robert Arnold MD
  • Daniel E. Hall MD, MDiv
#408
Conservative Management of Patients With End Stage Renal Disease
  • Antonio Corona MD
  • April Bigelow PhD, AGPCNP-BC
#409
Financial Toxicity and Cancer Care
  • Ramy Sedhom MD2
  • Fumiko Chino MD1
  • Arjun Gupta MD1
#410
Preparing for a Destination Therapy Ventricular Assist Device: The Palliative Care Planning Conversation
  • Ryan Jozwiak MD
  • Paul Stellmacher MD
  • April Zehm MD
#411
Nutrition for Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
  • Julia L. Frydman MD (1)
  • Elizabeth Pedowitz MD (1)
  • Elizabeth Lindenberger MD (1,2)
#412
Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC): an Overview
  • Ryan Morgan MD
  • Sandy Tun MD
  • Oliver Eng MD
#413
Tapering Opioids in Patients with Serious Illness: Who to Taper
  • Wesley Jones DO
  • Scott Junkins MD
  • Drew A Rosielle MD
#414
Tapering Opioids in Patients with Serious Illness: How to Taper
  • Wesley Jones DO
  • Scott Junkins MD
  • Drew A Rosielle MD
#415
General Inpatient Hospice Care
  • Mythili Bharadwaj MD
  • Lee Ann Lau MD
  • Sean Marks MD
#416
Functional Status Assessment in Serious Illness
  • Muhammad Hamza Habib MD1
  • Robert Arnold MD
  • Drew A Rosielle MD
#417
Total Pain
  • Avani Prabhakar MD
  • Thomas J Smith MD
#418
Mood Disturbances Associated with Long-term Opioid Therapy
  • Amy A. Case MD(1)
  • Mellar Davis MD(2)
#419
Caregiver Burden
  • Ramy Sedhom MD2
  • Angela Samaan MD2
  • Arjun Gupta MD1
#420
Neuroablative Interventions for Refractory Pain
  • Kristin Hines MD
  • Hamid Shah MD
  • Sumi Misra MD, MPH
#421
Providing Formative Feedback in the Clinical Setting
  • Carla Khalaf McStay MD
  • Gabrielle Langmann MD
  • Robert Arnold MD
#422
Bioethical Distinctions of End-of-Life Care Practices
  • Travis Rinderle DO
  • James Willett MD
#423
Clinician Tips for Virtually Connecting Dying Patients with Loved Ones
  • Gregory Holden MA, BCC
  • Orlanda Mackie MD
#424
Fecal Incontinence in Palliative Care Settings
  • Muhammad Hamza Habib MD1
  • Robert Arnold MD
#425
Urinary Incontinence in Palliative Care Settings – Part 1: Etiology, and Work-up
  • Muhammad Hamza Habib MD1
  • Robert Arnold MD
#426
Urinary Incontinence in Palliative Care Settings – Part 2: Management
  • Muhammad Hamza Habib MD1
  • Robert Arnold MD
#427
COPD: Emerging Therapies Which Can Also Palliate Symptoms
  • Kelvin Lou MD
#428
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) for Patients with Serious Medical Illness
  • Jordan Stone MD
#429
De-Stigmatizing the Language of Addiction
  • Janet Ho MD MPH
  • Katie F Jones MSN APN
  • Zachary Sager MD
  • Sarah Wakeman MD
  • Jessica S. Merlin MD PhD
#430
Oral Care: Focused History and Examination in Patients with Serious Illness
  • Muhammad Hamza Habib MD1
  • Sean Marks MD
  • Shahzad Raza MD3
  • Jyoti Malhotra MD MPH1
  • Mellar P. Davis MD4
#431
Common Non-Malignant Causes of Low Back Pain in Patients with Serious Illness
  • Michael Spickler MD1
  • Sean Smith MD2
#432
The Pause: Utilizing a Moment of Silence After a Patient Death
  • John Hendrick MD
  • Timothy Fuller MD
#433
Communication Strategies When Patients Utilize Spiritual Language to Hope for a Miracle 
  • Sarah Byrne-Martelli DMin BCC
  • Leah B. Rosenberg MD
#434
Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status
  • Anne-Marie Mischel MD
  • Drew A Rosielle MD
#435
End-of-Life Care Considerations for Muslim Patients
  • Muhammad Hamza Habib MD1
  • Sunniya Khan MD MBA2
  • Faryal Rizvi BA1
  • Shahzad Raza MD3
#436
Just in Time Teaching in Palliative Care
  • Callie Schnitker MD
  • Annette Nijjar MD
#437
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Prognostication in Advanced Illness  
  • René Claxton MD MS
#438
Teaching Communication Skills in Real Time
  • Alicia B Topoll  MD1
  • Robert Arnold MD
  • Katie H. Stowers  DO2
#439
Undue Influence VS Relational Autonomy in Clinical Decision-Making 
  • Timothy Fuller MD
  • John Hendrick MD
  • Anna Beck MD
#440
Opioid Rotation: Considerations, Controversy, & Clinical Practice
  • Lauren Berninger  DO, MBE
  • Corey Tapper MD, MS
#441
Sublingual Buprenorphine Initiation: The Traditional Method 
  • Katie Fitzgerald Jones  MSN, APN
  • Janet Ho MD MPH
  • Zachary Sager MD
  • Kathleen Broglio  DNP, RN,CHPN
  • Julie Childers  MD, MS
#442
Describing Pediatric Palliative Care Concepts to Patients and Families 
  • Jessica L. Spruit DNP, CPNP-AC1
  • Cynthia J. Bell PhD, RN2
#443
Expressing Condolences to a Family After the Death of a Child
  • Lori Wiener PhD, DCSW
  • Wendy Lichtenthal PhD, FT
  • Meaghann Weaver MD, MPH
#444
Palliative Prognostic Index
  • Divya Patel  MD
  • Sean Marks MD
#445
Outcomes of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Patients with Cancer and a Poor Performance Status
  • Alyssa Scher MD1
  • Camilla Melegari MD1
  • Ramy Sedhom MD2
#446
Compassion Fatigue and Compassion Satisfaction
  • Matthew Aiken BS
  • Renee A Foutz MD
#447
Lymphedema Considerations in Palliative Care
  • Shahrzad Rahbar Brown MD
  • Ben Skoch DO
#109
Death Rattle and Oral Secretions
  • Kathleen Bickel MD
  • Lava Kareem PharmD
  • Trinh Bui PharmD
  • Robert Arnold MD
#448
Telemedicine Best Practices when Leading Serious Illness Discussions
  • Muhammad Hamza Habib MD1
  • Anup Regunathan MD1
  • Mathias Schlögl MD, MPH, MBA2
#449
End of Life Care Considerations for the Pentecostal Patient
  • Hannah Coyne MCS, BCC-PCHAC
#450
MULTIMODAL ANALGESIC STRATEGIES FOR CANCER-RELATED ORAL MUCOSITIS
  • Carol Abousaab MD
  • Vishal Kapadia DO
  • Sean Marks MD

The Fifty Essential Fast Facts

The Essentials is a pdf containing all 50 Fast Facts organized by key domain e.g pain, non-pain symptoms, communication, prognosis, hospice, Palliative Care consultation, etc.

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Core Curriculum

The most important Fast Facts grouped into palliative care domains (e.g. pain) or specialty domains (e.g. oncology).

CME Courses

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Eight CME courses available in conjunction with the Medical College of Wisconsin

Geriatric Fast Facts open_in_new

The Geriatrics division, Medical College of Wisconsin created a series of Geriatric-related Fast Facts which are separate from the Palliative Care Fast Fact series.

HPM EPA Curriculum save_alt

Fast Facts organized into a curriculum for Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellows and program directors by the 17 Entrustable Professional Activities.