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Hospices’ Collaboration with Discharge Planners Key to Effective Care Transitions

Hospice News

Collaboration with hospital discharge planners can help hospices ensure smoother care transitions and timely referrals. Securing timely referrals for eligible patients remains a challenge because many hospice patients receive care for only a few days prior to death. So, it’s all about communication.”

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

GeriPal

So if you have say two similar patients who go to the ICU with COPD, both are an event, one lives for 27 days and dies in the ICU, the other one gets a palliative care consult and dies four days from hospital admission. And you had higher rates of hospice discharges, higher rates of DNR orders. Eric: Okay.