Association Between Intensity and Timing of Specialty Palliative Care and Hospice Exposure With Quality of End-of-Life Care.

Gaps remain in our understanding of the intensity and timing of specialty palliative care (SPC) exposure on end-of-life (EOL) outcomes. Examine the association between intensity and timing of SPC and hospice (HO) exposure on EOL care outcomes. Data for this cohort study were drawn from 2021 adult decedents from Kaiser Permanente Southern California and Colorado ( = 26,251).