Development and validation of a prediction score for early identification of palliative care needs for patients in the intensive care unit: a multicentre retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many critically ill patients and their families face serious physical, psychosocial, and spiritual burdens which can be addressed through specialist palliative care (PC). Identifying PC need and patients who would benefit from PC consultation remains challenging. We aimed to develop and validate a simple and accurate score for predicting PC involvement during intensive care unit (ICU) treatment with predictors routinely collected within 24 h of ICU admission to enable early integration.

Methods

This multicentre retrospective cohort study included adult patients admitted to an ICU between Jan 01, 2011 and Dec 31, 2022 in Boston, MA (development cohort), Omaha, NE, and Atlanta, GA (validation cohort [VC] I and II, respectively) in the United States of America. For s

SUBMITTER: Tenge T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12495436 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature