Emergency Departments as the Portal of Entry for Inpatient Geriatric Hospice and Palliative Medicine Consults

1. Recognize the Emergency Department as a primary portal of hospital entry for downstream Hospice and Palliative Medicine Consults in Geriatric patients.2. Recognize that one out of eleven geriatric ED patients in this sample received a Hospice and/or Palliative medicine consult during their hospitalization.

Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Satheesh Gunaga, Abe Al-Hage, Michael Welchans, Alyssa Buchheister, Jessica Corcoran, Kim Meeker, Brooke Buckley, Etu Egbe-Etu, Joseph Miller, Chandana Banerjee Source Type: research