Palliative Care and End-of-Life Outcomes Following High-risk Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Palliative care has the potential to improve care for patients and families undergoing high-risk surgery.

Objective

To characterize the use of perioperative palliative care and its association with family-reported end-of-life experiences of patients who died within 90 days of a high-risk surgical operation.

Design, setting, and participants

This secondary analysis of administrative data from a retrospective cross-sectional patient cohort was conducted in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare System. Patients who underwent any of 227 high-risk operations between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2015, were included.

Exposures

Palliative-care consultation within 30 days before or 90 days after surgery.

Main outcomes and measures

The

SUBMITTER: Yefimova M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6990868 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature