Background: A recent trend in health care is to integrate palliative care (PC) programs
across multiple hospitals to reduce variation, improve quality, and reduce cost. Objective …

Background: Cost savings associated with palliative care (PC) consultation have been
demonstrated for total hospital costs and daily costs after PC involvement. This analysis …

Background: Palliative care (PC) programs attempt to improve communication and symptom
management, and a consequence has been lower cost of in-hospital death. To date, most …

Background: While there has been a rapid increase of inpatient palliative care (PC)
programs, the financial and clinical benefits have not been well established. Objective …

Objective: To compare per diem total direct, ancillary (laboratory and radiology) and
pharmacy costs of palliative care (PC) compared to usual care (UC) patients during a …

Objectives To quantify the cost savings of palliative care (PC) and identify differences in
savings according to team structure, patient diagnosis, and timing of consult. Data Sources …

Background: Promoting Excellence in End-of Life Care, a national program of The Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, funded 22 demonstration projects representing a wide range of …

Established hospital palliative care consult services (PCCS) have been associated with
reduced costs and length of stay, decreased symptom burden, and increased satisfaction …

Defining financial parameters of palliative care (PC) is important for providing sustainable
programming. In our study, we evaluated hospital length of stay (LOS) and charges for the …

Background: Canadian data describing inpatient palliative care unit (PCU) utilization are
scarce. In the present study, we performed a quality assessment of a 24-bed short-term PCU …