Inpatient Palliative Care and Thirty-Day All-Cause Readmissions After Index Hospitalization for COPD

Researchers assessed the association between an inpatient Palliative Care Encounter (iPCE) and the risk of 30-day rehospitalization after an index hospitalization for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It was proven that iPCE was associated with a 50% lower relative odds of 30-day rehospitalization after an index hospitalization for COPD.

Discharge destination was statistically significant among those with a discharge destination of a facility (63%) and home where care was performed (58%).

Reference: Yazdanyar A, Vojtek A, Gupta S, et al. Association between inpatient palliative care encounter and 30-day all-cause readmissions after index hospitalization for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Heart Lung. 2022 Nov 18;58:69-73. doi: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2022.11.003. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36410155.

Link to article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36410155/