Hospice care in the emergency department.

Implementing a novel model for hospice and palliative care in the emergency department

Hospice and palliative care has been recognized as an essential part of emergency medicine; however, there is no consensus on the optimal model for the delivery of hospice and palliative care in the emergency department (ED). Therefore, we conducted a novel implementation in a tertiary medical center in Taiwan. In the preintervention period, we recruited a specialist for hospice and palliative ...

2017 Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care Case Session Abstracts End of Life Champions Team: A Novel Interdisciplinary Led Initiative for End-of- Life Care in the Emergency Department (TH322A)

Hospice and palliative medicine: new subspecialty, new opportunities.

Palliative care is the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual care provided to patients from diagnosis to death or resolution of a life-threatening illness. Hospice care is a comprehensive program of care that is appropriate when patients with chronic, progressive, and eventually fatal illness are determined to have a prognosis of 6 months or fewer. Hospice and palliative medicine has n...

Integrated Model of Palliative Care in the Emergency Department

An integrated model of palliative care in the emergency department (ED) of an inner city academic teaching center utilized existing hospital resources to reduce hospital length of stay (LOS) and reduce overall cost. Benefits related to resuscitation rates, intensity of care, and patient satisfaction are attributed to the ED-based palliative team's ability to provide real time consults, and util...

Service Delivery Innovation Profile Trained Paramedics Provide Ongoing Support to Frequent 911 Callers, Reducing Use of Ambulance and Emergency Department Services

Patient Population The program serves people who frequently call 911 in situations not considered to be an emergency, patients who call 911 with low-acuity medical complaints, patients at risk for potentially preventable admissions or readmissions, and patients at risk for hospice status revocation (updated January 2013).Vulnerable Populations > Medically uninsured; Insurance Status > Uninsured...

Perceived value and cost of providing emergency medication kits to home hospice patients in Maryland.

Many hospices have adopted the use of ''emergency medication kits'' (EMK) to allow for management of emergent symptoms and to prevent unscheduled patient interventions. The purpose of this study was to compare perceptions of hospice managers and clinicians regarding the value of EMK and to assess outcomes. Clinical managers and clinicians reported that EMK were valuable in preventing emergency ...