ArticleJournal of palliative medicine2018
Palliative Care Consults in U.S. Nursing Homes: Not Just for the Dying.
Article in Journal of palliative medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Identifying Nursing Home Residents with Unmet Palliative Care Needs: A Systematic Review of Screening Tool Measurement Properties.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2023Pooled it
- Evaluation of a Palliative Care Program for Nursing Homes in 7 Countries: The PACE Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA internal medicine · 2020Trial
- Training and Practice Gaps in Nursing Home Palliative Care: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025Article
- Advanced Care Plan Among Older Chinese in Residential Aged Care: A Retrospective Review.Journal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society · 2025Article
- Key informants' perceptions of telehealth palliative care for people living with dementia in nursing homes.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
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- Life-sustaining treatment decisions and family evaluations of end-of-life care for Veteran decedents in Department of Veterans Affairs nursing homes.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2024Article
- Identification of unmet palliative care needs of nursing home residents: A scoping review protocol.PloS one · 2024Article
- Telehealth Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Scoping Review.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2023Article
- High-Quality Nursing Home and Palliative Care-One and the Same.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundLittle is known about nursing home (NH) residents who receive palliative care (PC) consults in the United States.
objectiveSeparately by short versus long (≥90 days) stays, to describe NH residents with PC consults compared to a prevalent NH sample.
designDescriptive longitudinal study. SETTING/SUBJECTS: NH residents in 2008-2010 in 54 NHs. MEASUREMENTS: Resident characteristics came from merged Medicare and NH data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and consult information from two PC organizations that were the sole PC consult providers in the study NHs.
resultsFour percent of all NH residents received a PC consult during the study period. Two-thirds had short NH stays, and 81% of short- and 27% of long-stay consult recipients were on the Medicare skilled nursing facility (SNF) benefit at the time of initial consult. Short- and long-stay NH residents with PC consults differed not only, in many respects, from NH residents generally but also from each other. Despite these differences, half of short-stay and 57% of long-stay residents were alive six months after initial consults. Residents dead at six months died at 33.5 and 34.5 median days (respectively) after initial consults. At six months, 65% of surviving short-stay consult recipients were in the community without hospice, while 59% of long-stay residents were in the NH without hospice or Medicare SNF care.
conclusionThe high rates of SNF care and six-month survival among NH recipients of PC consults demonstrate the utility of these consults before Medicare hospice eligibility or use.
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