Background Palliative care seeks to improve outcomes for patients with advanced illness
(AI). Advocacy exists for making it part of mainstream care for hospitalized patients with AI …

Outcomes 1. Upon review of the findings, participants will be able to characterize palliative
care consultation utilization in a southeastern, academic medical center in a post-pandemic …

Purpose: Fewer emergency department (ED) visits may be a potential indicator of quality of
care during the end of life. Receipt of palliative care, such as that offered by the adult …

Overview: Inpatient palliative care teams'(PCT) contribution to improved quality of life and
patient satisfaction as well as decreased utilization and costs has been well established. Yet …

Background: Palliative care is associated with decreased treatment intensity and improved
quality for individual patients at the end of life, but little is known about how hospital-wide …

Background Usual hospital-based care at the end of life is associated with decreased
patient and family quality indicators and increased healthcare expenditures. The addition of …

Background: Increasing involvement of palliative care generalists may improve access to
palliative care. It is unknown, however, if their involvement with and without palliative care …

Palliative care is often believed to be synonymous with end-of-life care or required only after
standard care interventions have failed to achieve a desired effect. In fact, earlier palliative …

Background: Emergency department–based palliative care services are increasing, but
research to develop these services rarely includes input from emergency clinicians …

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