Palliative care teams' cost-saving effect is larger for cancer patients with higher numbers of comorbidities

Health Affairs

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 44-53

  May, Peter ^a,b   Garrido, Melissa M ^c   Cassel, J Brian ^d   Kelley, Amy S ^b   Meier, Diane E ^b   Normand, Charles ^a   Stefanis, Lee ^c   Smith, Thomas J ^e   Morrison, R Sean ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Weill Medical Center   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG ABUSE; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; ELIXHAUSER COMORBIDITY INDEX; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER DISEASE; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARALYSIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PEPTIC ULCER; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PERSONNEL SHORTAGE; PSYCHOSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SOLID TUMOR; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; WORKLOAD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

COMORBIDITY; COST SAVINGS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84958214396     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0752     Document Type: Article

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