Targeting Community-Based Palliative and Serious Illness Care Resources: Challenges of More Stringent Diagnostic Criteria for Prospective Enrollment

For patients with serious illnesses, one aim of palliative care services is to reduce the frequency and severity of hospital-based episodes of care. Since hospital-alternative palliative care may consume costly resources, providers need to efficiently target high-intensity services toward those most at risk for such adverse episodes of care.