Palliative care is an interdisciplinary care to optimize physical, psychosocial, and spiritual
symptoms of patients and their families whose quality of life is impaired by serious, life …

Objective: The purpose of this article is to discuss the goals of palliative care with regards to
acute care surgery patients and review the literature regarding administration and …

Study Design. A retrospective cohort study. Objective. The objective of the study was to
develop machine-learning (ML) classifiers for predicting prolonged intensive care unit (ICU) …

Substantial evidence indicates that goals-of-care (GOC) conversations in the setting of
serious illness can improve a variety of health outcomes. However, only 3% of seriously ill …

Introduction Palliative care within intensive care units (ICU) benefits decision-making,
symptom control, and end-of-life care. It has been shown to reduce the length of ICU stay …

Introduction Patients admitted to the Neurocritical Care Unit (NCCU) with moderate-to-
severe acute strokes, along with their surrogate decision makers, have the potential for …

Background: During the height of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in
New York City, COVID-19 hospitalization was associated with high mortality. It is unknown …

Objective Dying in the intensive care unit (ICU) has changed over the last twenty years due
to increased utilization of palliative care. We sought to examine how palliative medicine …

Background: Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) are an essential part of advanced heart
failure (HF) management, either as a bridge to transplantation or destination therapy …

Purpose To develop and validate an electronic poor outcome screening (ePOS) score to
identify critically ill patients with potentially unmet palliative care (PC) needs at 48 hours after …