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

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Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. Scott: You can’t say you, Alex Smith, are prohibited from getting palliative care. And you had higher rates of hospice discharges, higher rates of DNR orders.