Does early palliative identification improve the use of palliative care services?

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To evaluate whether the early identification of patients who may benefit from palliative care impacts on the use of palliative, community and acute-based care services.

Methods

Between 2014 and 2017, physicians from eight sites were encouraged to systematically identify patients who were likely to die within one year and would were thought to benefit from early palliative care. Patients in the INTEGRATE Intervention Group were 1:1 matched to controls selected from provincial healthcare administrative data using propensity score-matching. The use of palliative care, community-based care services (home care, physician home visit, and outpatient opioid use) and acute care (emergency department, hospitalization) was each evaluated within one year after the date of identi

SUBMITTER: Mittmann N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6994244 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature