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Hospital-based palliative care consultations enable the successful discharge of patients near the end of life, resulting in low rates of 30-day readmission and subsequent acute care hospital deaths. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

August 1, 2006Journal of Palliative Medicine

Survival, Mortality, and Location of Death for Patients Seen by a Hospital-Based Palliative Care Team

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Why the study?

What are the survival, mortality, and location of death outcomes for patients seen by a hospital-based palliative care team?

Population

292 unique patients seen over a one year period by the inpatient palliative care team at Oregon Health &…

Design

Cohort

Follow-up

up to 6 months

Authors

EFErik K. FrommeDana-Farber Cancer Institute PBPaul B. BascomGold Coast Hospital MSMary Denise SmithOregon Health & Science University

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Implication

Palliative care teams may facilitate low-readmission discharges near death; leaves open causal benefit versus usual care.

Structured PICO

What are the survival, mortality, and location of death outcomes for patients seen by a hospital-based palliative care team?

Population

292 unique patients seen over a one year period by the inpatient palliative care team at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), 60% younger than age 65, 39% female, 16% ethnic or racial minority, almost three quarters with a non-cancer diagnosis.

Intervention

Inpatient palliative care consultation and discharge planning

Outcome

Patient outcomes following inpatient palliative care consultation including discharge location, survival duration, and location of deathhard clinical

Hospital-based palliative care teams effectively facilitate discharge for patients near death, resulting in low rates of 30-day readmission and subsequent acute care hospital death.

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Fromme et al. (2006) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1a28277d55b2e1cd5b5af4 https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2006.9.903

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Survival, Mortality, and Location of Death for Patients Seen by a Hospital-Based Palliative Care Team

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Survival, Mortality, and Location of Death for Patients Seen by a Hospital-Based Palliative Care Team

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