{"title":"Study: palliative care cuts hospitalization costs.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patients spend less time in ICU and have lower in-hospital mortality rates. Identifying patient values and goals for their care is of primary importance. Palliative care improves quality of life.</p>","PeriodicalId":84856,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare benchmarks and quality improvement","volume":"18 5","pages":"52-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Healthcare benchmarks and quality improvement","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Patients spend less time in ICU and have lower in-hospital mortality rates. Identifying patient values and goals for their care is of primary importance. Palliative care improves quality of life.