Objective: To review the use of screening criteria (also known as “triggers”) as a mechanism
for engaging palliative care consultants to assist with care of critically ill patients and their …

Background The Institute of Medicine's report, Dying in America, highlights the critical need
for the widespread implementation of palliative care to improve end-of-life care. 1 …

Objective: The convergence of end-of-life care and surgical practice often occurs in the
surgical intensive care unit (SICU). Because many patients who encounter difficult end-of …

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 …

Objective: Addressing the quality gap in ICU-based palliative care is limited by uncertainty
about acceptable models of collaborative specialist and generalist care. Therefore, we …

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 …

Importance Palliative care consultations in intensive care units (ICUs) are increasingly
prompted by clinical characteristics associated with mortality or resource utilization …

Rationale: Use of triggers for palliative care consultation has been advocated in intensive
care units (ICUs) to ensure appropriate specialist involvement for patients at high risk of …

Objectives: Palliative care is an interprofessional specialty as well as an approach to care by
all clinicians caring for patients with serious and complex illness. Unlike hospice, palliative …

Purpose Despite the growing acceptance of palliative care as a component of high-quality
care for patients with serious illness, it remains underutilized in the surgical critical care …