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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

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In this article, it was availability of hospice services, but we also know availability of ICU services. Liz: Yeah, palliative care teams is exactly one of those institutional factors. And palliative care friendliness was definitely a very important factor to this.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

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Asking clinicians whether they had offered the option of withdrawal of life support and comfort-focused care also did not change length of stay, but did increase the discharges to hospice, odds greater than two-fold, whether it was done alone or in combination with the prognostication nudge. Were these two resources already there?