Home emergency response team for the seriously ill palliative care patient: feasibility and effectiveness.

Objectives: To characterise trajectories associated with a new team organisation combining critical care and palliative care approaches at home.

Methods: We describe the pattern of an emergency response team 24/7 directed to patients with advanced illness presenting a distressing symptom at home, who wanted to stay at home and for whom hospitalisation was considered inappropriate by a shared medical decision-making process in an emergency situation. To assess preliminary impact of this Programme, we conducted a descriptive study on all consecutive patients receiving this intervention during the first year (between 6 September 2021 and 5 September 2022).