Palliative Care Consultation for Goals of Care and Future Acute Care Costs: A Propensity-Matched Study.

CONCLUSION: Palliative care consultations for goals of care may decrease future health-care utilization with cost savings that persist into future hospitalizations. PMID: 29169247 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29169247?dopt=Abstract

Source: The American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care - January 1, 2017 Category: Palliative Care Authors: O'Connor NR, Junker P, Appel SM, Stetson RL, Rohrbach J, Meghani SH Tags: Am J Hosp Palliat Care Source Type: research