… as inpatient beds. “We started our unit before anybody knew if a palliative care unit could
be … administrative support and with team members doing palliative care on top of other full-time …

… Of 140 VA inpatient facilities in the United States and Puerto Rico, we analyzed those (n = …
palliative care consultation services and palliative care units. Because hospitals that had units …

… palliative care services. National Medical Insurance has covered inpatient palliative care units
(… home-based palliative care programs has been slow, and palliative care teams were not …

… Along with the increase in palliative care consult services, there has … in palliative care units
(PCUs), which are specialized hospital floors devoted specifically to providing palliative care.7…

… by the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC). Data … metrics for hospital inpatient
palliative care units. Operational … of patients admitted to an inpatient unit, such as age, disease…

… care unit (ICU) leadership that the palliative care service open a dedicated PCU and begin
admitting patients. Six years after the creation of the palliative care … one of the inpatient wards. …

… patients at highest risk to fall, implementation of fall prevention strategies and early patient
and family education may help address the issue of falls on inpatient palliative care units. …

… -quality palliative care, particularly in the inpatient setting. … of care and satisfaction with care
on palliative care units (PCUs), as described by inpatients, family caregivers, and health care …

… for nurses working in specialist palliative care units to articulate, document, and … palliative
nursing within hospice and specialist palliative care units but also to the future of palliative care …

… patients in specialist inpatient palliative care units. It identifies … family meetings in our
inpatient hospice unit. Our findings … family meetings in an inpatient specialist palliative care unit. …