Barriers to recruitment into emergency department-initiated palliative care: a sub-study of a multi-site, randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emergency department (ED) visits among older adults are common near the end of life. Palliative care has been shown to reduce ED visits and to increase quality of life among patients, but recruitment into these programs is often challenging. This descriptive analysis explores the barriers to enrolling seriously ill patients scheduled for discharge from the ED into palliative care research.

Methods

This descriptive sub-study aims to assess the reasons why patients with advanced illness scheduled for discharge home from 11 EDs across the United States decline to participate in Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Access (EMPallA), a Phase IV randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing two modes of palliative care delivery. Our aim was to understand why patients declin

SUBMITTER: Brickey J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8845365 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature