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The Latest in Critical Care, 3/11/24 (Issue #33)

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Ascension and UPenn test automatic palliative care consults Palliative care programs are sometimes pitched to administrators on the basis of their potential to reduce costs, by shortening length-of-stay or intensity of expensive and unhelpful therapies at the end of life. There was no difference in rate of discharge to hospice (6.8%

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