Abstract
Objectives Understand that previous economic evaluations of in-hospital palliative care consultation teams have defined treatment as a consult at any time during hospitalization. Understand the variance in timeliness of in-hospital palliative care consultation. Understand that timeliness of consult has a major impact on treatment effect on cost; earlier consult is associated with greater cost reduction. Original Research Background: Economic evaluations of specialist inpatient palliative care consultation teams (PCCTs) have consistently defined treatment as binary (seeing a PCCT at any time during hospitalization). However, consults at any time during
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