Mortality After Elective Surgery: The Potential Role for Preoperative Palliative Care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Preoperative optimization is increasingly emphasized for high-risk surgical patients. One critical component of this includes preoperative advanced care planning to promote goal-concordant care. We aimed to define a subset of patients that might benefit from preoperative palliative care consult for advanced care planning.

Materials and methods

We examined adult patients admitted from January 2016 to December 2018 to a university health system for elective surgery. Multivariate logistic regression was used to identify variables associated with death within 1 y, and presence of palliative care consults preoperatively. Chi-square analysis evaluated the impact of a palliative care consult on advanced care planning variables.

Results

Of the 29,132 inpatient elec

SUBMITTER: Robbins AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8338888 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature