Triggered Palliative Care Consults: A Systematic Review of Interventions for Hospitalized and Emergency Department Patients
Palliative care improves the quality of care and may reduce utilization, but delays or the absences of such services are common and costly in inpatient and emergency department settings. Triggered palliative care consults (PCCs) offer one way to identify patients who would benefit from palliative care and to connect them with services early in their course. Consensus reports recommend use of triggers to identify patients for PCC, but no standards exist to guide trigger design or implementation.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Emmett A. Kistler, Erin Stevens, Erin Scott, Lisa L. Philpotts, Joseph A. Greer, Jeffrey L. Greenwald Tags: Review Article Source Type: research