Kate Cicozi, Steven M Smith, Daniel H Grossoehme, Audrey Hiltunen, Catherine Roth, Gwendolyn Richner, Stephani S Kim, Sarah Friebert
Background: Pediatric home-based palliative care and/or hospice provider (Physician, Advanced Practice Nurse, or Physician Assistant) home visits are an underexplored subject in the literature with little available descriptive data and limited evidence guiding how best to utilize them. Objectives: Describe the population receiving hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) provider home visits and characterize visit themes. Design: Retrospective chart review of electronic medical record (EMR) data Setting/Subjects: A total of 226 individuals 1 month to 21 years of age, who received an HPM provider home visit from January 1, 2013, to December 31, 2018; two large quaternary medical centers in the Midwest...
January 25, 2023: Journal of Palliative Medicine