Open AccessTiming of Palliative Care Consultation and the Impact on Thirty-Day Readmissions and Inpatient Mortality
Author(s) -
John E. Barkley,
Andrea McCall,
Andréa L. Maslow,
Beata Skudlarska,
Chen Xu
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of palliative medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.986
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1096-6218
pISSN - 1557-7740
DOI - 10.1089/jpm.2018.0399
Subject(s) - medicine , palliative care , comorbidity , emergency medicine , observational study , retrospective cohort study , inpatient care , intensive care unit , subgroup analysis , heart failure , health care , confidence interval , nursing , economics , economic growth
Inpatient palliative care consultation (PCC) may reduce 30-day readmissions and inpatient mortality among seriously ill patients.
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