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Intensive Care Admissions: Predicting Palliative Care Needs In The First 24 Hours, Ashton R. Miller
Intensive Care Admissions: Predicting Palliative Care Needs In The First 24 Hours, Ashton R. Miller
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PURPOSE: The purpose of this retrospective analysis was to determine the proportion of intensive care admissions that required palliative care services during the same admission assessed by an investigator-developed palliative care screening tool. This study also analyzed the screening tool for the number of criteria producing the highest sensitivity and specificity for a palliative care consult occurring during the same hospital stay.
METHODS: Retrospective data collection and analysis were performed by randomly selecting 110 patients records from a report obtained through the electronic health record, Epic. The sample was drawn from patients admitted to a medicine intensive care unit (2A) …