Meeting
Abstract Number: 279
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Palliative care (PC) has been shown to improve the quality of life for patients facing life-threatening illness and their families. PC screening tools have been successfully used in identifying cancer patients in need of PC services and increase hospice utilization. However, a PC screening tool specific to hospitalized septic patients is lacking, despite sepsis […]