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Improving Access to Specialist Palliative Care for Patients with Catastrophic Strokes: A Quality Improvement Project to Trigger Inpatient Palliative Care Consultations (QI730)
The American Stroke Association strongly recommends palliative care for patients hospitalized with catastrophic strokes to improve shared decision-making and relieve suffering. An automatic trigger to consider a consult for these patients may improve access to palliative care. The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is a good predictor of short- and long-term outcomes and high scores (>= 20) are associated with poorer prognosis.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - February 23, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Vandana Nagpal, Marcey Osgood, Jennifer Reidy Source Type: research
