Background: Access to community-based specialist palliative care teams has been shown to
improve patients' quality of life; however, the impact on health system expenditures is …

Objective To determine the pooled effect of exposure to one of 11 specialist palliative care
teams providing services in patients' homes. Design Pooled analysis of a retrospective …

Background Community-based palliative care is associated with reduced hospital costs for
people dying from cancer. It is unknown if reduced hospital costs are universal across …

Background: Community-based palliative care may potentially benefit patients by offering
their preferred care at the end of life and benefit systems by reducing hospital use. Objective …

Background: Prior research on community-based specialist palliative care teams used
outcome measures of place of death and/or dichotomous outcome measures of acute care …

Objective Evidence has shown that, despite wide variation in models of care, community-
based specialist palliative care teams can improve outcomes and reduce acute care use at …

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate an adult home palliative care (HPC)
program for multiple insurance product lines using multiple vendors to determine if the …

Background: Increasing involvement of palliative care generalists may improve access to
palliative care. It is unknown, however, if their involvement with and without palliative care …

Background: Studies report cost-savings from hospital-based palliative care consultation
teams compared to usual care only, but drivers of observed differences are unclear. Aim: To …

Objectives To evaluate the nonclinical outcomes of a proactive palliative care program
funded and operated by a health system for Medicare Advantage plan beneficiaries. Design …