Avoided Hospitalization Criteria: Validating the Impact of a Community-Based Palliative Care Program

Objective: This report describes the experiences of a community-based palliative care (CBPC) program's efforts to understand the patterns of hospital utilization, specifically utilization reduction experienced by admitted patients. Efforts to quantify and describe an avoided hospitalization and...

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Main Authors: Gobi Paramanandam, Barbara E. Volk-Craft, Rachel Mayer Brueckner, Theresa M. O'Sullivan, Erin Waters
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Mary Ann Liebert 2020-10-01
Series:Palliative Medicine Reports
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Online Access:https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/PMR.2020.0077