Search results for "Palliative care"
Palliative care consults by default did not affect inpatient length of stay
Implementation of a default, opt-out palliative care consultation intervention for older hospital patients with advanced chronic illnesses did increase consult rates from 16.6% to 43.9% and significantly increased odds of discharge to hospice.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/24/palliative-care-consults-by-default-did-not-affect-inpatient-length-of-stay.htm
24 Jan 2024
Palliative care for a pandemic
In a recent interview, Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, described how palliative care expertise and resources are, and can be, applied to the current crisis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/08/3.htm
8 Apr 2020
Perspectives Examples
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/write/perspectives.html
Hospital-based palliative care may reduce ICU use
Implementation of palliative care services versus no implementation was associated with a 10% reduction in ICU use during terminal hospitalizations, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/01/15/4.htm
15 Jan 2020
May 2020
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/05/
Patients increasingly discharged alive from inpatient palliative care, referred to home or outpatient programs
Cancer was still the most common primary diagnosis in those receiving inpatient palliative care, but other diagnoses are becoming more common, according to a retrospective analysis from 2013 to 2017.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/12/11/4.htm
11 Dec 2019
December 2015
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/12/
EHR-based mortality prediction model may help identify patients for palliative care
One hospital's electronic health record (EHR) automatically calculated a score predicting risk for death within six months for medical patients on a hospitalist service, and those with a score of 0.30 or greater were deemed eligible for a palliative care consult.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/07/24/2.htm
24 Jul 2019
May 24, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/05/24/
July 20, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/07/20/