Palliative care: maximizing patient preference and cost savings ... goal of the project is to develop a palliative care benefit that will increase quality of life while minimizing health care costs. Public health relevance: The project will develop a ...

Patterns of Pediatric Palliative Care for All Children's Costs, Outcomes, Healthcare Utilization and Non-utilization Trajectories (PPC-ACCOUNT) ... Health Care Costs

Studying the effect of hospital palliative care programs on the service use and costs of Medicaid patients from a group of hospitals in New York State

Hospital costs and utilization of veterans receiving palliative versus usual care ... MD was the identifying instrument for selection into palliative care. FINDINGS/RESULTS: Hospital total direct, pharmacy, nursing, laboratory, and radiological costs were $464, $51, $182, $49 and $11 lower ...

Can early palliative care for non-small cell lung cancer improve end-of-life outcomes and reduce cost in the real world? A population-based study ... is unknown, which limits generalizability. Furthermore, the potential cost ... no early palliative care have not been described in a Canadian context. ...

... patient characteristics, course of treatment, and involvement of palliative care ... and whether certain types of care--such as palliative care--could prevent their high health costs, while improving the quality of care. The Canadian ...

health care costs

... proposal is to assess better the effect of palliative care consultation on utilization and costs of older adults with HF. Specific aim 1 ... structurally diverse hospitals representing low-, middle-, and high-cost ... consultation teams. The dataset includes hospital administrative data ...

... project is to describe cancer diagnoses, initial treatments, palliative care, longevity, and costs to Medicare among older and younger Medicare beneficiaries ...

Cost and quality of variations in ambulatory and home-based palliative care ... study are to: 1) comprehensively assess the societal costs, satisfaction and quality of home-based palliative care; and 2) examine the sociodemographic and clinical factors ...

... be measured in the domains of receipt of palliative care services, hospital service utilization, cost, social isolation, depression, anxiety, physical symptoms, spiritual needs, ...

IMPaCT (Interactive Palliative Care Training) ... project have been to evaluate the feasibility and costs of videoconferencing in palliative care and to assess the effectiveness of delivering education ...

... To examine the costs of FFGT and standard palliative care, and to assess whether the additional costs associated with FFGT delivery are offset by reductions ...

... palliative care programs and demonstrate the quality and cost-effectiveness of palliative care. Additional activities are designed to make palliative care ...

... and pressing need to bring high quality and cost-effective palliative care to the bedside of the millions of older ...

... nurse-assessed quality of death, other clinical outcomes, palliative care process measures, and costs. A trial of this scope is possible on ...

... concordant care, psychological symptoms, quality of life, and palliative care needs. We will also examine costs of care after accounting for costs of the ...

... some evidence that DEP/ANX treatment might reduce costs and unnecessary care utilization. Palliative care (PC), team-based symptom management for individuals ...

... preferences may help identify specific treatments such as palliative care that can reduce healthcare costs while improving prisoners' quality of life. We will ...

... aging population is pressuring health systems to provide palliative care outside the hospital that is high quality and cost-effective. A lot of research has investigated "expert- ...