Start of the COVID-19 pandemic and palliative care unit utilization: a retrospective cohort study
08/10/24 at 03:00 AM
Start of the COVID-19 pandemic and palliative care unit utilization: a retrospective cohort study
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management; by Michael Bonares, Kalli Stilos, Madison Peters, Lise Huynh, Debbie Selby; 7/24
Despite historically poor palliative care units (PCU)/hospice access, the COVID-19 pandemic created circumstances that may have enabled unprecedented utilization in individuals with non-cancer diagnoses in our cohort. This substantiates that so long as it is concordant with their goals, individuals with non-cancer diagnoses can have enhanced PCU/hospice utilization.