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Practical Implementation Strategies for Outpatient Neurology Palliative Care

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In this chapter, we provide a framework and practical strategies for implementing palliative care in the outpatient neurology setting. This includes tips for incorporating palliative care principles into routine outpatient care as well as strategies for developing general or subspecialty team-based neuropalliative care clinics. We review several different models of outpatient palliative care suitable for both academic and community-based settings and provide checklists as a starting point to standardize team membership, team members’ roles and the referral process. We share tips for clinic operations including means of handling both funding and cultural barriers. The chapter closes with suggestions for quality improvement within practices and implementation research.

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  1. Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, USA

    Nicholas B. Galifianakis & Maya Katz

  2. Department of Neurology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA

    Benzi M. Kluger

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  1. Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Washington Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA

    Claire J. Creutzfeldt

  2. Professor of Neurology, Chief Neurology Supportive and Palliative Care Section, Department of Neurology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA

    Benzi M. Kluger

  3. Professor and Edward A. and Alma Vollertsen Rykenboer Chair, Department of Neurology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA

    Robert G. Holloway

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Galifianakis, N.B., Katz, M., Kluger, B.M. (2019). Practical Implementation Strategies for Outpatient Neurology Palliative Care. In: Creutzfeldt, C., Kluger, B., Holloway, R. (eds) Neuropalliative Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93215-6_21

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