Palliative Interprofessional Collaborative for Action Research (PICAR)
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PICAR
PICAR is an award-winning group, comprised of interprofessional clinicians and academics from the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health, and Bayview Medical Center. PICAR conducts action research projects on a range of palliative care topics, addressing clinical needs in real-time.
Together, PICAR is aiming to better partner with our patients and families and communities, in all their diversity, in the care of those with serious illness using participatory, collaborative, and co-design approaches. Our conceptual framework is described in this publication, “A Call to Action to Address Disparities in Palliative Care Access: A Conceptual Framework for Individualizing Care Needs.”
PICAR Research:
The PICAR team consists of an interprofessional team of healthcare providers, researchers and academics, and community partners:
Awards: The PICAR team were awarded the Circle of Life award in 2023 by the American Hospital Association. For more information please see the following links:
Press Release
Podcast
Articles
Active Projects
Active Projects: The following list comprises active research and QI projects in progress, led by members of our PICAR team.
- An Experience-Based Co-Design Project with Nursing Students, Faculty, and Student Disability Services Staff to Increase Access for Students with Disabilities. (PIs: Rebecca Wright, Janiece Taylor)
2. Reimagining the Interdisciplinary Team to Include Environmental Care Staff: Applying Design Principles to Improve Palliative Care Experiences. (PI: Rebecca Wright)
3. The emergency department – A safety net model for palliative care (PI: Rebecca Wright)
4. Living with Multimorbidity: Care Coordination and Symptom Management (COORDINATE) Program for Older Adults (PI: Binu Koirala)
5. Living with Heart Failure and Multimorbidity: Disease Burden, Symptom Burden, Palliative Care Need, Shared Decision Making, Quality of Life, and Healthcare Utilization (PI: Binu Koirala)
- A Nurse-Led Approach to Improving Palliative Care in the ICU for Black Populations
- Partnering with African American community members in designing culturally sensitive goals of care communication training
- Living with Heart Failure and Multimorbidity: Gender Differences in Health Outcomes including Palliative Care Needs
- Reimagining the interdisciplinary team to address health disparities in palliative care
- Exploring end-of-life care: Access and perspectives among the A’aniniin and Nakoda Tribes
- Co-designing Person-Centered Palliative Care in the Johns Hopkins Center for Specialty ALS Care
- Living with Multimorbidity: Symptom Management across the Illness Trajectory