The Collaborative design team focused on palliative specialty care and hospice referral and reviewed literature along with existing practices.
They documented and piloted “reasons to refer” a patient to palliative specialty care from both inpatient and outpatient settings. The team also created “reasons to refer” a patient to hospice care from both inpatient and outpatient settings.
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Inpatient
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