Death and Cardiac Disease in Pediatric Hospitals and the Role of Subspecialty Palliative Care

In brief

This multicenter study of 1,044 pediatric cardiac patients who died across 31 US hospitals found that subspecialty palliative care involvement was associated with significantly reduced odds of high-intensity interventions and CPR at end-of-life. Two-thirds received high medical intensity care at death, but early palliative care consultation reduced aggressive interventions while patients with cardiomyopathy or recent cardiac surgery had higher intervention rates.

Written by the GCMD Library team from the article.