Study of palliative care demonstrates scalable strategy to increase support for seriously ill patients in hospital

Study of palliative care demonstrates scalable strategy to increase support for seriously ill patients in hospital
Medical Xpress, by Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; 1/16/24
By changing the process for ordering palliative care consultation from doctors opting in and actively placing an order to having the opportunity to opt out and cancel an automatic order, the investigators increased palliative care consultation rates from 16.6% to 43.9% and decreased the time to consultation by 1.2 days in the largest-ever study of inpatient palliative care, published in JAMA.