Primary Care
This Learning Pathway includes training and tools for primary care teams to improve quality of life along the trajectory of a serious illness. It includes continuing education courses in how to communicate with patients about their goals of care, support difficult decision-making, manage pain, and when to refer to specialty palliative care.
Introduction to Palliative Care
An introduction to palliative care, how it is delivered, its impact on quality of life, and the growing population of patients who need it.
Discussing Serious News
Learn best practices for having patient-centered conversations about a serious illness diagnosis.
Care Planning
Learn techniques to help patients and their caregivers plan for the future, both during the early stages of a serious illness and as a disease progresses.
Billing and Coding for Advance Care Planning (ACP) Services
MEMBERS ONLY
Requirements, best practices, documentation requirements, and time thresholds for Advance Care Planning (ACP) services.
Prescribing Opioids: A Pocket Reference
Opioid pocket reference for providers including safe starting doses, equianalgesic chart, and standard dosing strengths.
Billing Outpatient Tip Sheet
MEMBERS ONLY
Quick reference to help clinicians with clinic based outpatient billing and coding.
CAPC Palliative Care Referral Criteria
Checklist of triggers for referral to a specialty palliative care team.
Reducing Risks for Older Adults
This course provides context and best practices for identifying older adults at risk for poor outcomes, including falls, delirium, and caregiving challenges.
Course 1: Pain and its Impact on Our Patients
Learn to define and characterize pain, recognize the prevalence of pain, understand disparities in pain management based on race, ethnicity, and gender.
Course 2: How to Perform a Comprehensive Pain Assessment
Learn the components of a comprehensive pain assessment and its importance in safe and effective pain management.
Course 3: Matching Treatment to Pain Type
Gain an overview of pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic pain treatments, including risks and benefits, and learn how to match the analgesic to pain type.
Course 4: Prescribing an Opioid
Learn how to decide on an appropriate opioid, route of delivery, and dose, and understand how to prescribe for incident and breakthrough pain.
Course 5: Practice Prescribing an Opioid
Practice prescribing initial opioid doses for different pain types and characteristics. Learn to adjust dosing as needed to manage pain effectively.
Course 6: Creating a Pain Treatment Plan and Monitoring Effectiveness
Learn to develop a pain treatment plan with realistic goals and proper documentation, and implement universal precautions to help with the risk of opioid use disorder.
Course 8: Problems with Opioid Prescribing: Is it an Opioid Use Disorder?
Learn how to identify and diagnose opioid use disorder (OUD) and practice communicating with patients about OUD and pain management.
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