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Meredith MacMartin

@macmartinmd.bsky.social
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#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.

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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Very pleased to be a (small) part of this work. Inequities in rural healthcare are are significant and deeply personal for me and I'm really grateful to contribute to work shining a light on how our most vulnerable populations are affected. #hospice #palliativecare
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
One of the best things I’ve ever done for myself! Have fun!!
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Paul Howard @paulhoward.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Yet another economic analysis finding palliative care improves patient experience, reduces bed days and saves money. Cheaper and better - we're a solution to the funding crisis. Yet the NHS continues to cut our budgets. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Specialist palliative care improves patient experience, reduces bed days and saves money: An economic modelling study of home- and hospital-based care - Peter May, Elham Nikram, Therese Johansson, Gem...
Background: High-quality evidence suggests that specialist palliative care reduces the odds of dying in hospital. The economic implications have not been establ...
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Nice illustration of the reason why diagnosing information preferences is a really important step in both prognostic disclosure and decision making #palliativecare #shareddecisionmaking
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Crosstrek!!
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Party of the Sun is an indie neo-folk group from a small town in New Hampshire, mellow and dreamy (full disclosure - half the band is my brother-in-law)
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I particularly love footnote 101, correcting the government's interpretation of the significance of July 4!
Footnote 101: The Court notes that the government described this celebration as the “250th birthday” of the federal government,
Defs.’ Opp’n Mot. Prelim. Inj. at 6 [Doc. No. 27], but the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 did not, in fact, create the federal government. Even the Articles of Confederation, establishing a central government, were not adopted by the Continental Congress until 1777. Indeed, the federal government as currently
established is more appropriately traced to the adoption of the Constitution in 1789.
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I love adding thin sliced raw fennel to this combo too!
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Deeply embarrassing and so so disappointing. Do better Dartmouth.
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
THANK YOU! The use of opioids for sedation in the MICU is so troubling for many reasons and I'm so glad to see this getting called out.
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
YESSSS
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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 www.unionleader.com/opinion/op-e...
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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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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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 www.capc.org/blog/feasibi... #PatientExperience #PalliativeCare #Hospice
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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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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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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Catherine H. Saunders, PhD MPH @cjhsaunders.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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
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Healthcare Experience Lab at Dartmouth @hexlab.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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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Healthcare Experience Lab at Dartmouth @hexlab.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
A system in which social determinants of health are meaningfully addressed "upstream". There is SO MUCH unnecessary suffering that happens as a result of poverty and it's like putting a finger in the dike over and over.
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Thank you for replying!
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Thank you very much!
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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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Ken Covinsky @kencovinsky.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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...
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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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Catherine H. Saunders, PhD MPH @cjhsaunders.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Way too much fun with the lab and collaborators at the #HExLab Holiday Edition.
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Catherine H. Saunders, PhD MPH @cjhsaunders.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I've fallen off due to stress elsewhere but still plugging away and revising the manuscript I finished this month. You've done amazing work!
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Allison Bond @allisonrbond.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
ID and palliative care want to hear about your pets!
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
We're making progress! A lot has changed just in the last decade and I see a lot of reason for hope ❤️
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I'll be honest, this is not surprising to me 🤣
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Thank you for this link, it represents a lot of my misgivings too even with the differences in our systems for end of life care. What a beautiful idea to think of hospice as a wellness center - amazing reframe of our work! #palliativecare #hapc
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Sent out my manuscript draft to co-authors today! Have a long list of projects to tackle next so now off to think about which one is next 🤔 Big thanks for keeping #NaMaWriMo alive here ❤️💪
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I'm here! 👀 Finished my manuscript draft yesterday! This week will be for revising for flow and word count, and updating/verifying all my cites. Aiming to send to co-authors at the end of the week!
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I'm old and tired and not sure I'm going to still be awake but I'm really looking forward to reading it over tomorrow ❤️
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
SO GLAD to see you here! It's like old home days and I'm HERE FOR IT!
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Gahhh I've missed you too!! Time to reconstitute Pocket Mentors??
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
<3 to you friend, I'm overjoyed to be reuniting with so many familiar people!
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
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!
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Meredith MacMartin @macmartinmd.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
This honestly makes me want to cry - thank you friend <3 We need community more than ever!
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