Economic Analysis of Hospital Palliative Care: Investigating Heterogeneity by Noncancer Diagnoses.

ABSTRACT: Background. Single-disease-focused treatment and hospital-centric care are poorly suited to meet complex needs in an era of multimorbidity. Understanding variation in palliative care's association with treatment choices is essential to optimizing interdisciplinary decision making in care of complex patients. Aim. To estimate the association between palliative care and hospital costs by primary diagnosis and multimorbidity for adults with one of six life-limiting conditions: heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), liver failure, kidney failure, neurodegenerative conditions including dementia, and HIV/AIDS. Methods. Data from four studies (2002-2015) were pooled to provide an analytic dataset of 73,304 participants with mean costs $10,483, of whom 5,

SUBMITTER: May P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6737878 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature