Association between Palliative Care and End-of-Life Resource Use for Older Adults Hospitalized with Septic Shock.

ABSTRACT: Rationale: The care of critically ill patients often involves complex discussions surrounding prognosis, goals, and end-of-life decision-making. Yet, physician and hospital practice patterns, rather than patient goals, remain a major determinant of the intensity of end-of-life care. For critically ill patients, palliative care may help promote treatments that are concordant with patients' goals, while minimizing the use of invasive and costly intensive care unit resources that may not be consistent with those goals.Objectives: To determine whether inpatient palliative care, delivered by specialist consultants or a primary medical team, is associated with reduced hospital length of stay and costs for older adults with septic shock at the end of life.Methods: This was a

SUBMITTER: Maley JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7531025 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature