Meredith MacMartin
@macmartinmd.bsky.social
#Palliativecare MD and researcher @DartmouthHealth.bsky.social studying interdisciplinary teams and decision-making support with special focus on the inpatient care setting. Mother, wife, dog person, snow enthusiast.
There's plenty of harm that will be done by the #OBBB - here's one that isn't getting coverage: low income older adults at the end of their lives. #Medicaid cuts hurt EVERYONE. #hospice #PalliativeCare #EndofLife
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Dr. Meredith A. MacMartin: Cuts to Medicaid stress a system that serves all
I AM a hospice and palliative care physician and New Hampshire native, writing to draw people’s attention to one aspect of the cuts to Medicaid proposed in “One Big Beautiful
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June 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
There's plenty of harm that will be done by the #OBBB - here's one that isn't getting coverage: low income older adults at the end of their lives. #Medicaid cuts hurt EVERYONE. #hospice #PalliativeCare #EndofLife
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Thanks to @capcpalliative.bsky.social for adding our paper on the use of PREMs in inpatient palliative to their News Bites! CC: @hexlab.bsky.social
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#PatientExperience #PalliativeCare #Hospice
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#PatientExperience #PalliativeCare #Hospice
New Study on Integrating PREMs to Assess Care Quality - CAPC - News Bites
Study finds that using PREMs in routine inpatient palliative care helps to identify patient and family concerns and opportunities for improvement.
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April 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Thanks to @capcpalliative.bsky.social for adding our paper on the use of PREMs in inpatient palliative to their News Bites! CC: @hexlab.bsky.social
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#PatientExperience #PalliativeCare #Hospice
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#PatientExperience #PalliativeCare #Hospice
Excited to share new work from colleagues at @dartmouthhealth.bsky.social on improving communication in the #ICU. I especially like the detailed results which indicate which domains of quality communication had the best (and least) uptake! #PalliativeCare
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Improving Critical Care Communication with the Serious Illness Conversation Guide at an Academic Medical Center
Professional societies have called for methods to improve serious illness communication training for critical care fellows and faculty. The Serious Il…
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April 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Excited to share new work from colleagues at @dartmouthhealth.bsky.social on improving communication in the #ICU. I especially like the detailed results which indicate which domains of quality communication had the best (and least) uptake! #PalliativeCare
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Reposted by Meredith MacMartin
So deeply proud of our team's work here. Shoutout to @macmartinmd.bsky.social for leading this paper. And to @dartmouthhealth.bsky.social for creating space for us to innovate and delivery truly patient-centered care when folks need it most, during serious illness. #hpm
A fast and frugal measure of people's concerns when in palliative care - consideRATE. And care coordination - integRATE ... now being used in real clinical settings
www.jpsmjournal.com/article/S088...
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Use of the consideRATE and integRATE measures to assess care quality in inpatient palliative care.
Despite recognition of the importance of measuring the quality of palliative care,
there are significant gaps in information about how to do so in real-world settings,
particularly for patient-reporte...
www.jpsmjournal.com
April 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
So deeply proud of our team's work here. Shoutout to @macmartinmd.bsky.social for leading this paper. And to @dartmouthhealth.bsky.social for creating space for us to innovate and delivery truly patient-centered care when folks need it most, during serious illness. #hpm
Very very happy that this is out in the world! Proud of our team and our work to push measurement and improvement of #patientexperience in serious illness! #Hapc #palliativecare #hospice
A fast and frugal measure of people's concerns when in palliative care - consideRATE. And care coordination - integRATE ... now being used in real clinical settings
www.jpsmjournal.com/article/S088...
www.jpsmjournal.com/article/S088...
Use of the consideRATE and integRATE measures to assess care quality in inpatient palliative care.
Despite recognition of the importance of measuring the quality of palliative care,
there are significant gaps in information about how to do so in real-world settings,
particularly for patient-reporte...
www.jpsmjournal.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Very very happy that this is out in the world! Proud of our team and our work to push measurement and improvement of #patientexperience in serious illness! #Hapc #palliativecare #hospice
Reposted by Meredith MacMartin
Dr. Catherine Saunders delivered an inspiring Grand Rounds at Dartmouth Heath! She shared patient-centered strategies for measuring and improving serious-illness care experiences, including consideRATE questions and visit agenda-setting. Exciting patent engagement work! 🐝 🐝 🐝
March 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Dr. Catherine Saunders delivered an inspiring Grand Rounds at Dartmouth Heath! She shared patient-centered strategies for measuring and improving serious-illness care experiences, including consideRATE questions and visit agenda-setting. Exciting patent engagement work! 🐝 🐝 🐝
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The HEx Lab team is making great progress on the Agenda Setting in Kidney Disease (ASK) Study! Interviews and ethnographic observation well underway! Studying ways to help CKD patients self-advocate! NIDDK: K01DK139400
March 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The HEx Lab team is making great progress on the Agenda Setting in Kidney Disease (ASK) Study! Interviews and ethnographic observation well underway! Studying ways to help CKD patients self-advocate! NIDDK: K01DK139400
Hi #PalliativeCare friends, I'm piggy-backing on #hapc25 to ask a clinical question: For those of you who work in inpatient or #hospice settings AND have access to palliative sedation, are you required to obtain written informed consent before implementing palliative sedation? Would love to know!!
February 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Hi #PalliativeCare friends, I'm piggy-backing on #hapc25 to ask a clinical question: For those of you who work in inpatient or #hospice settings AND have access to palliative sedation, are you required to obtain written informed consent before implementing palliative sedation? Would love to know!!
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More evidence that private equity and hospice are a poor mix Hospices owned by private equity provide inferior care compared to non-profits across multiple measures
Well-being of our loved one at end of life should not be sacrificed for investor profit
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Well-being of our loved one at end of life should not be sacrificed for investor profit
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Caregiver-Reported Quality in Hospices Owned by Private Equity Firms and Publicly Traded Companies
This study compares differences in caregiver-reported hospice quality across categories of ownership, including for-profit private equity firm (PEF)/publicly traded company (PTC)–owned and non-PEF/PTC...
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December 17, 2024 at 9:15 PM
More evidence that private equity and hospice are a poor mix Hospices owned by private equity provide inferior care compared to non-profits across multiple measures
Well-being of our loved one at end of life should not be sacrificed for investor profit
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Well-being of our loved one at end of life should not be sacrificed for investor profit
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Reposted by Meredith MacMartin
Wrote nearly a full solid first draft of a paper about using #consideRATE in our freestanding hospice and palliative care center today. Excited to share more about using patient-centered experience measures to improve care. #prem #palliative #hpm Go @hexlab.bsky.social
December 5, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Wrote nearly a full solid first draft of a paper about using #consideRATE in our freestanding hospice and palliative care center today. Excited to share more about using patient-centered experience measures to improve care. #prem #palliative #hpm Go @hexlab.bsky.social
Reposted by Meredith MacMartin
I love being part of this team! It's a real gift to work with a group of people committed to rigorous study of complex topics like #patientexperience. Also we have a LOT of fun together ❤️ #seriousillness
It was so fun to train the ASK Study team (and other members of the lab) to do qualitative interviews on Friday! Best team. Can't wait to learn more about the needs of rural-residing folks with kidney disease. In true HEx Lab style, we took a lot of pics. @hexlab.bsky.social
November 25, 2024 at 3:01 PM
I love being part of this team! It's a real gift to work with a group of people committed to rigorous study of complex topics like #patientexperience. Also we have a LOT of fun together ❤️ #seriousillness
Started the day with a great talk by Yael Schenker, and have been thinking about this quote since. We're still not in a place where skilled end of life care is just offered to all who need it, but we're getting closer. I'm grateful to be part of that effort #palliativecare #hapc #hpm
November 22, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Started the day with a great talk by Yael Schenker, and have been thinking about this quote since. We're still not in a place where skilled end of life care is just offered to all who need it, but we're getting closer. I'm grateful to be part of that effort #palliativecare #hapc #hpm
I finally made the move and in just a short time it feels like MedTwitter USED to be - I've really missed having a global community to learn and share with. Thanks to @ctsinclair.bsky.social and @ehahnmd.bsky.social for the nudge to get over here. Looking forward to #hapc chat tomorrow!
November 12, 2024 at 4:14 PM
I finally made the move and in just a short time it feels like MedTwitter USED to be - I've really missed having a global community to learn and share with. Thanks to @ctsinclair.bsky.social and @ehahnmd.bsky.social for the nudge to get over here. Looking forward to #hapc chat tomorrow!