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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

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Going back to when I was shopping this idea around the health systems in 2012, we landed on the stepped-wedge design because no one was… I said before you couldn’t randomize people to get palliative care or not, specifically. And you had higher rates of hospice discharges, higher rates of DNR orders. Eric: Yeah.