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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Agenda and Participants." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2003. Describing Death in America: What We Need to Know: Executive Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10619.
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Appendix C
Workshop Agenda and Participants

Describing Death in America: What We Need to Know

WORKSHOP AGENDA

October 10, 2001

12:00 noon

INFORMAL LUNCH

1:00 pm

Welcome and introductions

Thomas J. Smith, M.D., F.A.C.P., Workshop Chairman

1:15

Summary and status report on background paper

June Lunney, Ph.D.

1:30

Remarks by individual workshop participants: Issues with existing data and suggestions for change

3:15

BREAK

3:30

Group discussion of recommendations to be considered by IOM

4:45

Wrap up

Dr. Smith, Marilyn J. Field, Ph.D., Hellen Gelband

5:00

ADJOURN

Location: 1055 Thomas Jefferson Street, N.W.—“The Foundry”

Room 2004

Washington, D.C.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Agenda and Participants." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2003. Describing Death in America: What We Need to Know: Executive Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10619.
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Describing Death in America

WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS

October 10, 2001

Thomas J. Smith, M.D., F.A.C.P., chair

Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University

Amy B. Bernstein, Sc.D.

National Center for Health Statistics

Dwight Brock, Ph.D.

National Institute on Aging

Molla Sloane Donaldson, Dr.P.H.

National Cancer Institute

Vicki A. Freedman, Ph.D.

Polisher Institute, Philadelphia

Rosemary Gibson

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Barbara Haupt, D.V.M.

National Center for Health Statistics

Marcia Levetown, M.D.

University of Texas

June Lunney, Ph.D.

Center to Improve Care of the Dying, The RAND Corporation

Timothy J. Moynihan, M.D.

Mayo Clinic—Medical Oncology

Peggy Parks

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Phil Renner, M.B.A.

National Committee for Quality Assurance

Harry M. Rosenberg, Ph.D.

National Center for Health Statistics

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Agenda and Participants." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2003. Describing Death in America: What We Need to Know: Executive Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10619.
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Paul Schyve, M.D.

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

Sidney M. Stahl, Ph.D.

National Institute on Aging

Joan Teno, M.D.

Brown University

Claudette Varricchio DSN, RN, FAAN

National Cancer Institute

Beth Virnig, Ph.D., M.P.H.

University of Minnesota

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Agenda and Participants." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2003. Describing Death in America: What We Need to Know: Executive Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10619.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Agenda and Participants." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2003. Describing Death in America: What We Need to Know: Executive Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10619.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Workshop Agenda and Participants." Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. 2003. Describing Death in America: What We Need to Know: Executive Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10619.
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National expenditures for medical care in the months and days preceding death are enormous. But we do not know whether that money is buying good quality care or optimizing the quality of life of those dying, or whether the situation is getting better or worse over time. The information that exists “describing death” at a national level – though some of it is very informative – is fragmentary. This report recommends ways to fill the information gaps by better use of existing nationally-representative data, and through some new measures, in particular, a new, ongoing National Mortality Followback Survey. The aim is to allow us to benchmark where we are today as a society, and what goals we can set to minimize pain and suffering and maximize the quality of life of all of us who will die in the years to come.

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