Publications by authors named "Benjamin Byriel"
Patients with end-stage liver disease have high symptom burden and high healthcare utilization, which may be improved by palliative care consultation. We sought to determine if implementing standardized palliative care consultation criteria in hospitalized patients with end-stage liver disease would increase palliative care utilization and improve patient outcomes. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of hospitalized patients with end-stage liver disease.
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- Palliative care (PC) and hospice care are not being used enough for patients with serious liver problems, and we wanted to find out why.
- In a study of 397 patients, only a small number were referred to PC (15.4%) and hospice (17.9%), and many referrals happened late, closer to when patients died.
- Factors like being unmarried, having more health issues, and even age affected who got referred to PC or hospice care.