Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Caring for Patients in the Emergency Department

Palliative principles are increasingly within the scope of EM. In EM, there remain untapped opportunities to improve primary palliative care (PC) and integrate patients earlier into the palliative continuum

10 high-yield tips to optimize the ED consultation by PC teams.

• Highlights include tips for navigating time-pressures in the ED
• Clarifying consult questions
• Establishing clear goals for PC consults

Share this article your palliative medicine colleagues to boost your ED-PC program!

Wang D, et al. J Palliat Med. 2019 July 29.