TY  - JOUR
T1  - Hospital-based palliative medicine consultation: A randomized controlled trial
AU  - Pantilat SZ, O’Riordan DL, Dibble SL, Landefeld C
Y1  - 2010/12/13
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.460
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 2038
EP  - 2040
VL  - 170
IS  - 22
N2  - 
Hospital-based palliative care consultation services increase patient and family satisfaction,1- 2 improve quality of life,3 reduce intensive care unit length of stay,4 and decrease costs.2,5 Clear evidence of the effectiveness of palliative care consultation services in improving symptoms has been more elusive.2- 3,6 We conducted a randomized trial to evaluate the impact of a proactive palliative medicine consultation (PMC) on the care of chronically ill, hospitalized elderly patients.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.460
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2010.460
ER  -