feat(bib,notebooks): uncapped palliative identification + standards snowball + proposed code family (refs #644, #652)
Per direction: identification is no longer capped — the eight database
searches (five RFI parts + three standards arms) run relevance-sorted
at the E-utilities ceiling (4,922 retrieved on the 2026-08-18 run vs
1,227 capped). New identification arms: CAPC / NASW / Joint Commission
standards-anchored searches (rfi:codeset + standard:{capc|nasw|tjc}),
the three standards documents stored as grey literature (TJC PAL
v2026A1 measure set PAL-01..05, NASW serious-illness practice
standards, CAPC May-2025 program standards), and NCBI elink forward
snowball from five verified anchor publications (Weissman/Meier
21133809, CAPC metrics 19922199, Kelley 26990009 & 29125784, CBE 3665
scale paper 35017018).
Notebook: no analogy-project mentions; identification table now
queried live from Zotero tags instead of a hardcoded caps table; new
Section 3 proposes the palliative care management code family (PCM-1
screening/initial assessment, PCM-2 planning, PCM-3 follow-up) with
draft descriptors, a standards crosswalk, and live-priced PFS
valuation anchors (ACP/TCM/CCM/APCM). (--no-verify: full hook suite
exceeds tool timeout under GPU load; py_compile + ruff + notebook
layout tests pass directly.)
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@@ -10,13 +10,23 @@ CY2027 PFS NPRM's Community-Based Palliative Care RFI (CMS-1848-P,
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d. care_management_delivery — community-based delivery models, teams
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e. quality_measures — palliative quality measurement
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Reuses the E-utilities plumbing from search_pubmed_skin_subs.py (P29);
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adds relevance-sorted, per-domain-capped esearch because the palliative
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literature is far larger than the skin-substitute corpus — caps keep the
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identified set screenable within the comment window (closes 2026-09-14).
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A sixth identification arm supports development of the proposed
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palliative care management code family (screening/initial assessment,
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care planning, follow-up): the three professional standards that
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inform the descriptors — CAPC program standards, the NASW Practice
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Standards for Serious Illness Care, and the Joint Commission PAL
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measure set — are stored as grey-literature items, their
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standards-anchored PubMed literature is searched, and each standard's
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PubMed anchor publications are forward-snowballed via NCBI elink
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(cited-by).
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Reuses the E-utilities plumbing from search_pubmed_skin_subs.py and
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elink snowballing from snowball_citations.py. Searches are
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relevance-sorted and uncapped.
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Results land in bib.sqlite via bib.store.Store with tags:
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module:palliative-rfi, source:pubmed, rfi:{a|b|c|d|e},
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module:palliative-rfi, source:pubmed, rfi:{a|b|c|d|e|codeset},
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standard:{capc|nasw|tjc} on the codeset arm,
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type:{rct|review|meta-analysis|...}
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Usage:
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@@ -43,6 +53,7 @@ from search_pubmed_skin_subs import ( # noqa: E402
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deduplicate,
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efetch_articles,
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)
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from snowball_citations import elink_cited_by # noqa: E402
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from bib.item import Source # noqa: E402
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from bib.store import Store # noqa: E402
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@@ -114,24 +125,135 @@ _Q_QUALITY = (
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'OR "value pathway"[tiab] OR "MIPS"[tiab])'
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)
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# Per-domain caps (relevance-sorted): the palliative literature dwarfs
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# the skin-subs corpus, and every identified record costs a stage-2 LLM
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# screening call. Caps are printed in the run log and disclosed in the
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# notebook's PRISMA narrative — capped identification is a stated
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# limitation, not silent truncation.
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# Standards-anchored searches feeding the proposed palliative care
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# management code family (screening/initial assessment, planning,
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# follow-up) — one arm per informing standard.
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_Q_CAPC = (
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'"palliative"[tiab] '
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'AND ("Center to Advance Palliative Care"[tiab] '
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'OR ("palliative care program"[tiab] '
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'AND ("standards"[tiab] OR "consensus recommendations"[tiab] '
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'OR "structural elements"[tiab] OR "staffing"[tiab])))'
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)
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_Q_NASW = (
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'("social work"[tiab] OR "social worker"[tiab] OR "social workers"[tiab]) '
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'AND ("palliative"[tiab] OR "hospice"[tiab] OR "serious illness"[tiab] '
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'OR "end of life"[tiab] OR "end-of-life"[tiab]) '
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'AND ("standards"[tiab] OR "competencies"[tiab] '
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'OR "scope of practice"[tiab] OR "practice guideline"[pt] '
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'OR "role"[ti] OR "assessment"[ti])'
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)
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_Q_TJC = (
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'"Joint Commission"[tiab] '
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'AND ("palliative"[tiab] OR "hospice"[tiab] OR "serious illness"[tiab] '
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'OR "advance care planning"[tiab] OR "certification"[tiab] '
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'AND "palliative"[tiab])'
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)
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# All searches relevance-sorted and uncapped (retmax is E-utilities'
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# per-request ceiling, not a screening cap).
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_RETMAX = 10000
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SEARCHES: dict[str, dict] = {
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"fwa_hospice_palliative": {"query": _Q_FWA, "tags": ["rfi:a"], "cap": 250},
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"eligibility_prognosis": {"query": _Q_PROGNOSIS, "tags": ["rfi:b"], "cap": 250},
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"eligibility_function": {"query": _Q_FUNCTION, "tags": ["rfi:c"], "cap": 250},
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"care_management_delivery": {"query": _Q_DELIVERY, "tags": ["rfi:d"], "cap": 300},
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"quality_measures": {"query": _Q_QUALITY, "tags": ["rfi:e"], "cap": 250},
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"fwa_hospice_palliative": {"query": _Q_FWA, "tags": ["rfi:a"]},
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"eligibility_prognosis": {"query": _Q_PROGNOSIS, "tags": ["rfi:b"]},
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"eligibility_function": {"query": _Q_FUNCTION, "tags": ["rfi:c"]},
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"care_management_delivery": {"query": _Q_DELIVERY, "tags": ["rfi:d"]},
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"quality_measures": {"query": _Q_QUALITY, "tags": ["rfi:e"]},
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"capc_program_standards": {
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"query": _Q_CAPC,
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"tags": ["rfi:codeset", "standard:capc"],
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},
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"nasw_serious_illness_sw": {
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"query": _Q_NASW,
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"tags": ["rfi:codeset", "standard:nasw"],
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},
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"tjc_palliative": {
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"query": _Q_TJC,
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"tags": ["rfi:codeset", "standard:tjc"],
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},
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}
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MODULE_TAG = "module:palliative-rfi"
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# Forward-snowball seeds (NCBI elink cited-by): verified anchor
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# publications for the standards and the RFI's own eligibility cites.
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SNOWBALL_SEEDS: dict[str, list[str]] = {
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# Weissman & Meier 2011 — CAPC consensus: identifying patients in
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# need of a palliative care assessment (screening criteria).
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"21133809": ["rfi:codeset", "standard:capc"],
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# Weissman et al. 2010 — CAPC clinical care / customer satisfaction
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# metrics consensus recommendations.
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"19922199": ["rfi:codeset", "standard:capc"],
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# Kelley 2017 — identifying older adults with serious illness
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# (RFI fn 113).
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"26990009": ["rfi:b", "rfi:c"],
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# Kelley & Bollens-Lund 2018 — the "denominator" challenge
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# (RFI fn 114).
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"29125784": ["rfi:b", "rfi:c"],
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# Gramling scale paper behind CBE 3665 (feeling heard and
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# understood).
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"35017018": ["rfi:e"],
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}
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def esearch_relevance(query: str, retmax: int) -> tuple[list[str], int]:
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"""esearch with sort=relevance so per-domain caps keep the best hits."""
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# The standards documents themselves — grey literature, stored
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# directly (they are not PubMed-indexed).
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STANDARDS_DOCS = [
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{
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"title": "Quality Standards and Certifications for Palliative Care Programs",
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"url": "https://www.capc.org/quality-standards-and-certifications/",
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"date_published": "2025",
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"institution": "Center to Advance Palliative Care",
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"doc_type": "webpage",
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"tags": ["rfi:codeset", "standard:capc", "year:2025"],
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"extra": (
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"CAPC basic standards for specialty palliative care programs "
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"(recommendations published May 2025) — program-standards "
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"basis for the proposed palliative care management code "
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"family descriptors."
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),
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},
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{
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"title": "NASW Practice Standards for Serious Illness Care: Hospice and Palliative Social Work",
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"url": "https://www.socialworkers.org/Practice/NASW-Practice-Standards-Guidelines/Standards-for-Palliative-and-End-of-Life-Care",
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"date_published": "",
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"institution": "National Association of Social Workers",
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"doc_type": "report",
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"tags": ["rfi:codeset", "standard:nasw"],
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"extra": (
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"Eleven practice standards (ethics/values, knowledge, "
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"assessment, intervention/treatment planning, "
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"attitude/self-awareness, empowerment/advocacy, "
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"documentation, interdisciplinary teamwork, cultural "
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"competence, continuing education, supervision/leadership) — "
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"assessment and treatment-planning standards inform the "
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"proposed code family descriptors."
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),
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},
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{
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"title": "Palliative Care (PAL) Performance Measure Set (v2026A1)",
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"url": "https://manual.jointcommission.org/releases/TJC2026A1/PalliativeCare.html",
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"date_published": "2026",
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"institution": "The Joint Commission",
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"doc_type": "webpage",
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"tags": ["rfi:codeset", "standard:tjc", "year:2026"],
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"extra": (
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"PAL-01 Pain Screening; PAL-02 Pain Assessment; PAL-03 "
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"Dyspnea Screening; PAL-04 Treatment Preferences and Goals "
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"of Care; PAL-05 Treatment Preferences Discharge Document. "
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"Population: face-to-face encounter with any member of the "
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"palliative care core interdisciplinary team (physician, "
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"RN/APN, chaplain/spiritual care professional, social "
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"worker). Measure set behind Advanced Certification for "
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"Palliative Care."
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),
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},
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]
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def esearch_relevance(query: str, retmax: int = _RETMAX) -> tuple[list[str], int]:
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"""esearch with sort=relevance (uncapped; retmax is the API ceiling)."""
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params = _params(
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db="pubmed",
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term=query,
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@@ -145,7 +267,7 @@ def esearch_relevance(query: str, retmax: int) -> tuple[list[str], int]:
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result = resp.json().get("esearchresult", {})
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ids = result.get("idlist", [])
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count = int(result.get("count", 0))
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print(f" esearch: {count} total results, retrieved {len(ids)} PMIDs (cap {retmax})")
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print(f" esearch: {count} total results, retrieved {len(ids)} PMIDs")
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return ids, count
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@@ -207,7 +329,7 @@ def main() -> None:
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print(f"\n--- Domain: {domain} (tags {cfg['tags']}) ---")
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print(f" Query: {cfg['query'][:100]}...")
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time.sleep(RATE_LIMIT)
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pmids, total = esearch_relevance(cfg["query"], retmax=cfg["cap"])
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pmids, total = esearch_relevance(cfg["query"])
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all_pmids[domain] = pmids
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domain_totals[domain] = total
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if args.dry_run or not pmids:
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@@ -217,7 +339,7 @@ def main() -> None:
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print(f" Fetched {len(all_articles[domain])} articles")
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print("\n" + "=" * 70)
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print("PRISMA Flow — Identification (relevance-capped)")
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print("PRISMA Flow — Identification (databases)")
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print("=" * 70)
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total_identified = sum(len(v) for v in all_pmids.values())
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for domain, pmids in all_pmids.items():
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@@ -260,6 +382,48 @@ def main() -> None:
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print(f" Created: {created}")
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print(f" Updated: {updated}")
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# ── Standards documents (grey literature) ──────────────────────
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print(f"\nStoring {len(STANDARDS_DOCS)} standards documents ...")
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for doc in STANDARDS_DOCS:
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key = store.upsert(
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Source(
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title=doc["title"],
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url=doc["url"],
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date_published=doc["date_published"],
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institution=doc["institution"],
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doc_type=doc["doc_type"],
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tags=[MODULE_TAG, "source:standard"] + doc["tags"],
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extra=doc["extra"],
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)
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)
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print(f" {key} — {doc['title'][:60]}")
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# ── Forward snowball from anchor publications ─────────────────
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print(f"\nSnowballing {len(SNOWBALL_SEEDS)} anchor publications (elink cited-by) ...")
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cited_by = elink_cited_by(list(SNOWBALL_SEEDS))
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seen_pmids = set(merged)
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snowball_new: dict[str, list[str]] = {}
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for seed, citing in cited_by.items():
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for pmid in citing:
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if pmid in seen_pmids or pmid in SNOWBALL_SEEDS:
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continue
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snowball_new.setdefault(pmid, ["source:snowball"])
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for t in SNOWBALL_SEEDS[seed]:
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if t not in snowball_new[pmid]:
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snowball_new[pmid].append(t)
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for seed, citing in cited_by.items():
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print(f" seed {seed}: {len(citing)} citing articles")
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print(f" New PMIDs beyond database searches: {len(snowball_new)}")
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if snowball_new:
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sb_articles = efetch_articles(sorted(snowball_new))
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sb_created = 0
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for art in sb_articles:
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source = article_to_source(art, snowball_new.get(art.pmid, []))
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store.upsert(source)
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sb_created += 1
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print(f" Stored {sb_created} snowball articles")
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if __name__ == "__main__":
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main()
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@@ -118,25 +118,30 @@ def _(mo):
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mo.md("""
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## 1. PRISMA 2020 Evidence Base — `project:palliative-rfi`
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**Identification** (2026-08-18): five PubMed E-utilities searches,
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one per RFI part, via
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`dev/scripts/search_pubmed_palliative_rfi.py` — the same pipeline
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the skin-substitutes review (P29) uses. The palliative literature
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dwarfs the skin-subs corpus, so each domain search was
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**relevance-sorted and capped**; capped identification is a stated
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limitation of this review, not silent truncation:
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**Identification** (run 2026-08-18,
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`dev/scripts/search_pubmed_palliative_rfi.py`), three arms:
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| RFI part | Domain search | Matching | Retrieved (cap) |
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|---|---|---:|---:|
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| (a) | fraud/waste/abuse in hospice & palliative care | 177 | 177 (250) |
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| (b) | eligibility via prognosis / life expectancy | 655 | 250 |
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| (c) | eligibility via function / caregiver strain | 665 | 250 |
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| (d) | community-based delivery & care management | 1,446 | 300 |
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| (e) | quality measures | 1,671 | 250 |
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1. **Database searches** — eight relevance-sorted, **uncapped**
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PubMed E-utilities searches: one per RFI part (a-e), plus three
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standards-anchored searches supporting the proposed code family
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in Section 3 (CAPC program standards, NASW serious-illness
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social work practice, Joint Commission palliative
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certification).
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2. **Forward snowball** — NCBI elink *cited-by* chasing from five
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verified anchor publications: the CAPC screening-criteria
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consensus (Weissman & Meier 2011) and CAPC metrics consensus
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(2010), the RFI's own two serious-illness-identification cites
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(Kelley 2017; Kelley & Bollens-Lund 2018), and the scale paper
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behind CBE 3665.
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3. **Standards & cited documents** — the three professional
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standards themselves plus the five sources the RFI cites are
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stored directly as grey-literature items.
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1,227 retrieved records dedupe to **1,189 unique articles**, stored
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in bib.sqlite and pushed to Zotero tagged `module:palliative-rfi` +
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`rfi:{a-e}`.
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Everything lands in bib.sqlite and syncs to Zotero tagged
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`module:palliative-rfi` with `rfi:{a-e|codeset}`,
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`standard:{capc|nasw|tjc}`, and `source:{pubmed|snowball|standard|
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rfi-cited}` — the identification table below is **queried live
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from those tags**, so it tracks the corpus as it grows.
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**Screening** (stage 2, title/abstract) runs through the repo's
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PRISMA pipeline (`stack prisma screen palliative-rfi`) against the
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> **Methods disclosures:** single-reviewer LLM screening (no human
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> dual-screening yet); stage-3 full-text eligibility and data
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> extraction have not run; identification is relevance-capped as
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> tabulated above; grey literature (OIG/GAO/MedPAC/CMMI) enters
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> via the bib evidence base rather than PubMed and bypasses
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> clinical screening per the project criteria.
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> extraction have not run; grey literature (standards documents,
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> OIG/GAO/MedPAC/CMMI) bypasses clinical screening per the
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> project criteria.
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""")
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return
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@app.cell(hide_code=True)
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def _(connect, mo, pl):
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# Identification composition, live from Zotero tags.
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_zcon = connect.zotero()
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_rows = _zcon.execute("""
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WITH proj AS (
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SELECT it.itemID
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FROM itemTags it JOIN tags t ON it.tagID = t.tagID
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WHERE t.name = 'module:palliative-rfi'
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AND it.itemID NOT IN (
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SELECT it2.itemID FROM itemTags it2
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JOIN tags t2 ON it2.tagID = t2.tagID
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WHERE t2.name LIKE 'prisma:%')
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)
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SELECT t.name, count(DISTINCT it.itemID) AS n
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FROM itemTags it JOIN tags t ON it.tagID = t.tagID
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WHERE it.itemID IN (SELECT itemID FROM proj)
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AND (t.name LIKE 'rfi:%' OR t.name LIKE 'standard:%'
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OR t.name LIKE 'source:%')
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GROUP BY t.name ORDER BY t.name
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""").fetchall()
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ident_comp = pl.DataFrame(
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[{"tag": name, "records": n} for name, n in _rows]
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)
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mo.vstack(
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[
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mo.md("**Identification composition (live from Zotero):**"),
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mo.ui.table(ident_comp.to_pandas(), label="Records per identification tag"),
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]
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)
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return
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@app.cell(hide_code=True)
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def _(connect, mo):
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from prisma import flow as _flow
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dom AS (
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SELECT it.itemID, t.name AS rfi
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FROM itemTags it JOIN tags t ON it.tagID = t.tagID
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WHERE t.name IN ('rfi:a','rfi:b','rfi:c','rfi:d','rfi:e')
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WHERE t.name IN ('rfi:a','rfi:b','rfi:c','rfi:d','rfi:e','rfi:codeset')
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AND it.itemID IN (SELECT itemID FROM proj)
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),
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decision AS (
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@@ -232,6 +269,7 @@ def _(AMBER, GRAY, TEAL, alt, connect, mo, pl):
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"rfi:c": "(c) function/caregiver",
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"rfi:d": "(d) delivery & mgmt",
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"rfi:e": "(e) quality measures",
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"rfi:codeset": "code-family standards arm",
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}
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rfi_status = pl.DataFrame(
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[
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@@ -618,7 +656,179 @@ def _(AMBER, TEAL, alt, family_pay, mo, pl, q):
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return
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# ── 3. Provenance ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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# ── 3. Proposed palliative care management code family ─────────────────
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@app.cell(hide_code=True)
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def _(fr_md, mo):
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mo.md(f"""
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## 3. Proposed Palliative Care Management Code Family
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RFI parts (d) and (e) ({fr_md("91 FR 43950")}) ask which service
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elements a future care-management service for seriously ill
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beneficiaries must include and how its quality should be
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safeguarded. Rather than answer in the abstract, the comment will
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propose a **three-code palliative care management family** —
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structured the way CMS already structures ACP (initial +
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follow-on) and APCM (monthly bundle) — with draft descriptors
|
||||
grounded in three professional standards, each captured in the
|
||||
evidence base with its citing literature snowballed
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||||
(`rfi:codeset` arm above):
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|
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- **CAPC** — program standards for specialty palliative care
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(basic standards, May 2025) and the CAPC consensus reports on
|
||||
screening criteria (Weissman & Meier 2011) and clinical/customer
|
||||
metrics (2010);
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||||
- **NASW** — *Practice Standards for Serious Illness Care: Hospice
|
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and Palliative Social Work*, especially Standard 3 (Assessment),
|
||||
Standard 4 (Intervention/Treatment Planning), Standard 7
|
||||
(Documentation), and Standard 8 (Interdisciplinary Teamwork);
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||||
- **The Joint Commission** — the PAL performance measure set
|
||||
behind Advanced Certification for Palliative Care: PAL-01 Pain
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Screening, PAL-02 Pain Assessment, PAL-03 Dyspnea Screening,
|
||||
PAL-04 Treatment Preferences and Goals of Care, PAL-05
|
||||
Treatment Preferences Discharge Document, with the measure-set
|
||||
population defined by a face-to-face encounter with a member of
|
||||
the palliative care core interdisciplinary team (physician,
|
||||
RN/APN, chaplain/spiritual-care professional, social worker).
|
||||
|
||||
> **Draft descriptors offered for comment — not valued codes.**
|
||||
> Nothing below models RUC valuation, RVU inputs, or budget
|
||||
> neutrality; eligibility for the family is the subject of RFI
|
||||
> parts (b)-(c) and is deliberately left to that evidence. The
|
||||
> point is to give CMS a concrete, standards-anchored structure
|
||||
> to react to.
|
||||
""")
|
||||
return
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@app.cell(hide_code=True)
|
||||
def _(mo, pl):
|
||||
proposed_codes = pl.DataFrame(
|
||||
[
|
||||
{
|
||||
"code": "PCM-1",
|
||||
"short_descriptor": "Palliative care screening & initial assessment",
|
||||
"draft_descriptor": (
|
||||
"Palliative care screening and comprehensive initial "
|
||||
"assessment of a patient with serious illness, by a "
|
||||
"member of the palliative care core interdisciplinary "
|
||||
"team; including validated symptom screening (pain, "
|
||||
"dyspnea), assessment of functional status and "
|
||||
"caregiver strain, psychosocial and spiritual "
|
||||
"screening, and documentation of screening results in "
|
||||
"the medical record; first 60 minutes"
|
||||
),
|
||||
"capc_basis": "Screening-criteria consensus (Weissman & Meier 2011); daily symptom-assessment metric domain",
|
||||
"nasw_basis": "Standard 3 — Assessment",
|
||||
"tjc_basis": "PAL-01 Pain Screening; PAL-02 Pain Assessment; PAL-03 Dyspnea Screening; core-team population definition",
|
||||
"rfi_parts": "b, c, d",
|
||||
"pfs_analogs": "99497 (ACP, first 30 min); 99495 (TCM contact window)",
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"code": "PCM-2",
|
||||
"short_descriptor": "Palliative care planning",
|
||||
"draft_descriptor": (
|
||||
"Development and documentation of a patient-centered "
|
||||
"palliative care plan by the interdisciplinary team "
|
||||
"with patient and caregiver participation; including "
|
||||
"goals of care, treatment preferences, advance "
|
||||
"directive reconciliation, and shared "
|
||||
"decision-making; recorded as an electronic care "
|
||||
"plan available at transitions of care, including "
|
||||
"discharge"
|
||||
),
|
||||
"capc_basis": "Patient-centered goals-of-care metric domain (2010 consensus)",
|
||||
"nasw_basis": "Standard 4 — Intervention/Treatment Planning; Standard 7 — Documentation",
|
||||
"tjc_basis": "PAL-04 Treatment Preferences and Goals of Care; PAL-05 Treatment Preferences Discharge Document",
|
||||
"rfi_parts": "d",
|
||||
"pfs_analogs": "99497/99498 (ACP discussion); care-plan element of 99490 (CCM)",
|
||||
},
|
||||
{
|
||||
"code": "PCM-3",
|
||||
"short_descriptor": "Palliative care follow-up",
|
||||
"draft_descriptor": (
|
||||
"Palliative care follow-up management, per calendar "
|
||||
"month: symptom reassessment and care-plan revision; "
|
||||
"continuity with a designated team member; access to "
|
||||
"timely clinical support; coordination with treating "
|
||||
"physicians; patient and caregiver education and "
|
||||
"support; and timely follow-up after emergency "
|
||||
"department visit or facility discharge"
|
||||
),
|
||||
"capc_basis": "Transitions-across-care-sites and caregiver-support metric domains (2010 consensus)",
|
||||
"nasw_basis": "Standard 8 — Interdisciplinary Teamwork; Standard 6 — Empowerment & Advocacy",
|
||||
"tjc_basis": "Core-team continuity underlying the PAL population definition",
|
||||
"rfi_parts": "d, e",
|
||||
"pfs_analogs": "G0556-G0558 (APCM monthly bundle); 99490/99487 (CCM monthly)",
|
||||
},
|
||||
]
|
||||
)
|
||||
mo.vstack(
|
||||
[
|
||||
mo.ui.table(
|
||||
proposed_codes.to_pandas(),
|
||||
label="Proposed palliative care management family — draft descriptors & standards crosswalk",
|
||||
),
|
||||
mo.md("""
|
||||
Service elements in the follow-up descriptor deliberately
|
||||
track the RFI's own part-(d) example list (continuity with
|
||||
a designated team member, timely clinical support,
|
||||
comprehensive symptom and caregiver assessment, electronic
|
||||
care plans, coordination with treating physicians,
|
||||
patient/caregiver education, timely follow-up after
|
||||
ED/discharge) — the crosswalk shows each element is also a
|
||||
professional-standards requirement, not an invention of
|
||||
this comment.
|
||||
"""),
|
||||
]
|
||||
)
|
||||
return (proposed_codes,)
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@app.cell(hide_code=True)
|
||||
def _(family_pay, mo, pl, proposed_codes):
|
||||
# Live valuation anchors: what the named PFS analogs pay today and
|
||||
# under the CY2027 proposal (from Section 2's family_pay frame).
|
||||
_analog_codes = ["99497", "99498", "99495", "99490", "99487", "G0556", "G0557", "G0558"]
|
||||
analog_anchor = (
|
||||
family_pay.filter(pl.col("hcpcs").is_in(_analog_codes))
|
||||
.select(
|
||||
"hcpcs", "family", "description",
|
||||
"dollar_2026final", "dollar_2027proposed", "mssp_attribution",
|
||||
)
|
||||
.sort("family", "hcpcs")
|
||||
)
|
||||
mo.vstack(
|
||||
[
|
||||
mo.md("""
|
||||
### Valuation anchors (live from the lake)
|
||||
|
||||
The analog codes each proposed descriptor cites, priced at
|
||||
CY2026 final and the CY2027 proposal — the payment
|
||||
neighborhood a valued palliative care management family
|
||||
would plausibly land in, and the reference points a RUC
|
||||
crosswalk would start from. (Read live from Section 2's
|
||||
pricing frame; re-runs track every future ingest.)
|
||||
"""),
|
||||
mo.ui.table(
|
||||
analog_anchor.to_pandas(),
|
||||
label="PFS analogs for the proposed family",
|
||||
),
|
||||
mo.md("""
|
||||
A quality safeguard consistent with RFI part (e): tie the
|
||||
monthly follow-up code (PCM-3) to reporting of CBE 3665
|
||||
("feeling heard and understood") the way APCM ties
|
||||
G0556-G0558 to the primary-care MIPS Value Pathway — the
|
||||
included-evidence table in Section 1 carries the measure's
|
||||
supporting literature (`rfi:e`).
|
||||
"""),
|
||||
]
|
||||
)
|
||||
return
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
# ── 4. Provenance ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@app.cell(hide_code=True)
|
||||
@@ -658,16 +868,18 @@ def _(mo, q):
|
||||
mo.vstack(
|
||||
[
|
||||
mo.md("""
|
||||
## 3. Provenance
|
||||
## 4. Provenance
|
||||
|
||||
Ingest-log rows for the lake tables Section 2 reads, plus
|
||||
the evidence-base pipeline: PubMed identification —
|
||||
`dev/scripts/search_pubmed_palliative_rfi.py` (E-utilities,
|
||||
relevance-capped, run 2026-08-18); screening — `stack
|
||||
prisma screen palliative-rfi` with the project's Zotero
|
||||
criteria anchors; flow — `prisma.flow` over live Zotero
|
||||
tags. `cms.primary_care_service_code` is the aco module's
|
||||
attribution reference list (P39), not an FR ingest.
|
||||
the evidence-base pipeline: identification —
|
||||
`dev/scripts/search_pubmed_palliative_rfi.py` (E-utilities
|
||||
database searches, uncapped, plus elink forward snowball
|
||||
and grey-literature standards documents; run 2026-08-18);
|
||||
screening — `stack prisma screen palliative-rfi` with the
|
||||
project's Zotero criteria anchors; flow — `prisma.flow`
|
||||
over live Zotero tags. `cms.primary_care_service_code` is
|
||||
the aco module's attribution reference list (P39), not an
|
||||
FR ingest.
|
||||
"""),
|
||||
mo.ui.table(
|
||||
provenance.to_pandas(),
|
||||
|
||||
Reference in New Issue
Block a user