Outcomes of Palliative Care Consults With Hospitalized Veterans

Fed Pract. 2018 Sep;35(9):44-47.

Authors

Sukesh Manthri¹, Cameron Simmons¹, Oscar A Cepeda¹

Affiliation

¹ and are Fellows at St. Louis University in Missouri. is a Palliative Care Physician at the John Cochran Division of the VA St. Louis Health Care System. Dr. Cepeda also is Director of the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Saint Louis University School of Medicine.

PMID: 30766386
PMCID: PMC6366796

Abstract

Families and patients receive emotional support and better care planning after palliative care consultations.