Workforce shortages, late referrals, and palliative care program resource constraints present
significant barriers to meeting the needs of hospitalized patients facing serious illnesses …

Palliative care consultations for patients with life-threatening illnesses provide benefits for
the patients and their families as well as for the health care team. Patients have better quality …

Objective: To understand perceptions of palliative care in acute care hospitals and identify
barriers to earlier use of palliative care in the illness trajectory. Methods: In Pennsylvania …

The primary aim of this prospective face-to-face interview survey was to identify the
proportion of inpatients at an acute hospital (Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK) …

Context There are few multicenter studies that examine the impact of systematic screening
for palliative care and specialty consultation in the intensive care unit (ICU). Objective To …

Context: Palliative care consultation teams in hospitals are becoming increasingly more
common. Palliative care improves the quality of hospital care for patients with advanced …

Background The emergency department (ED) is increasingly used by patients with life‐
limiting illness. These patients are frequently admitted to the hospital, where they suffer from …

INTRODUCTION the number of people age 65 or older is set to increase from 524 million
worldwide in 2010 to 1.5 billion, or 16 percent of the world's population, in 2050 (1). Growth …

Palliative care consultation is the most common model of hospital-based services in the
United States, but few studies examine the impact of this model. In a prospective study, we …

This report describes the multiple complementary analytic methods used to create a
composite evaluation of the benefits of a hospital-based inpatient palliative care consultation …