1 40 1 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Citation List Month Backlog URL Address <a href="http://doi.org/10.1089/109662102320135270" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://doi.org/10.1089/109662102320135270</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Does a palliative care clinic have a role in improving end-of-life care? Results of a pilot program Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Journal Of Palliative Medicine Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 Subject The topic of the resource Female; Humans; Male; United States; Adult; Aged; Middle Aged; Pilot Projects; Program Development; Program Evaluation; Survival Analysis; Hospitals; Proportional Hazards Models; 80 and over; Outpatient Clinics; Hospice Care/methods/trends; Hospital/organization & administration; Palliative Care/methods/organization & administration/trends; Veterans/organization & administration Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Casarett DJ; Hirschman KB; Coffey JF; Pierre L Description An account of the resource OBJECTIVE: To assess the efficacy of a palliative care clinic (PCC), which provided some of the interdisciplinary services and expertise of an inpatient consult service to outpatients, in traditional clinic sessions. DESIGN: Chart review. SETTING: A large urban Veterans Administration Medical Center. PATIENTS: One hundred patients referred to clinic. INTERVENTIONS: Palliative care clinic. OUTCOME MEASURES: Patients' reported needs, Global Distress Index (GDI) subscale, hospice eligibility, and time to death. RESULTS: The most common diagnosis was cancer (n = 85). Most patients (n = 89) had at least one need for services that the team provided (median, 2; range, 0-4), the most common of which was a desire for information about prognosis (n = 84). In a Cox proportional hazards model, predictors of enrollment in hospice included white ethnicity (hazard ratio, 3.42; p < 0.001), a need for help around the home (hazard ratio, 3.26; p = 0.002), and insufficient money left at the end of the month (hazard ratio, 2.39; p = 0.014). CONCLUSIONS: The experience of the PCC described here offers a unique approach to improving end-of-life care for those outpatients who may not be well served by existing structures of care such as palliative care consult services and who have not yet enrolled in hospice. 2002 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="http://doi.org/10.1089/109662102320135270" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">10.1089/109662102320135270</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Article information provided for research and reference use only. PedPalASCNET does not hold any rights over the resource listed here. All rights are retained by the journal listed under publisher and/or the creator(s). Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article 2002 80 And Over Adult Aged Backlog Casarett DJ Coffey JF Female Hirschman KB Hospice Care/methods/trends Hospital/organization & administration Hospitals Humans Journal Article Journal of Palliative Medicine Male Middle Aged Outpatient Clinics Palliative Care/methods/organization & administration/trends Pierre L Pilot Projects Program Development Program Evaluation Proportional Hazards Models Survival Analysis United States Veterans/organization & administration