Publications by authors named "Michelle Churchill"
Article Synopsis
- The study aims to assess the impacts of early screening for palliative care in ICU patients to align their care with personal goals and potentially shorten their ICU stays.* -
- Using a retrospective cohort approach, researchers compared ICU admissions before and after implementing palliative care screening, focusing on how this screening affected the use of specialist palliative care and various patient outcomes.* -
- Results showed that after screening implementation, there was a significant increase in early palliative care consultations (17% vs 1%), indicating a positive shift in palliative care use following the new protocol.*
Background: Although the Emergency Department (ED) offers a unique setting to provide early palliative care, staffing limitations curtail hospitals from establishing ED-palliative partnerships.
Measures: Feasibility of a two-step ED-palliative screening protocol was defined by two criteria: a ≥ 50% increase in palliative consults originating from the ED and a ≥ 50% consultation completion rate for patients who screened positive for unmet palliative needs.
Intervention: A clinical decision support tool identified patients with treatment/code status limitations and prompted a care coordination referral.
Objective: To evaluate the impact and burden of the new National Healthcare Safety Network surveillance definition, mucosal barrier injury laboratory-confirmed bloodstream infection (MBI-LCBI), in hematology, oncology, and stem cell transplant populations.
Design: Retrospective cohort study.
Setting: Two hematology, oncology, and stem cell transplant units at a large academic medical center.