Identifying Patients with Serious Illness within a Health System to Maximize the Value of Home Based Palliative Care (GP763)

Palliative care programs typically rely on referrals to identify patients. Such approaches risk inefficient use of resources through enrolling patients with minimal needs while failing to identify high need patients. Systematic case-finding using data in the electronic health record and/or administrative claims could improve on provider referral.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Source Type: research