Implementation of Specialist Palliative Care and Outcomes for Hospitalized Patients with Dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In patients with serious illness, use of specialist palliative care may result in improved quality of life, patient and caregiver satisfaction and advance care planning, as well as lower health care utilization. However, evidence of efficacy is limited for patients with dementia, particularly in the setting of an acute hospitalization.

Objective

To determine whether implementation of hospital-based specialist palliative care was associated with differences in treatment intensity outcomes for hospitalized patients with dementia.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Fifty-one hospitals in New York State that either did or did not implement a palliative care program between 2008 and 2014. Hospitals that consistently had a palliative care program d

SUBMITTER: Lackraj D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8202070 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature