Predictors of Specialty Outpatient Palliative Care Utilization Among Persons With Serious Illness.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Outpatient Palliative Care (OPC) benefits persons living with serious illness, yet barriers exist in utilization.

Objectives

To identify factors associated with OPC clinic utilization.

Methods

Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Access is a multicenter, randomized control trial comparing two models of palliative care for patients recruited from the Emergency Department (ED): nurse-led telephonic case management and OPC (one visit a month for six months). Patients were aged 50+ with advanced cancer or end-stage organ failure and recruited from 19 EDs. Using a mixed effects hurdle model, we analyzed patient, provider, clinic and healthcare system factors associated with OPC utilization.

Results

Among the 603 patients randomized to OPC, about half (53.6%) o

SUBMITTER: Barker PC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12614125 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature