Table 3.
Health Care Utilization Outcomes and Quality Measures for End of Life Care*
| Usual Care | Intervention | Total | p-Value | |
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| One or More Referrals | 62 (28.3%) | 166 (61.0%) | 228 (46.4%) | <.001 |
| Chaplaincy | 2 (0.9%) | 40 (14.7%) | 42 (8.6%) | <.001 |
| Nutrition | 17 (7.8%) | 60 (22.1%) | 77 (15.7%) | <.001 |
| Pain/Palliative Care | 6 (2.7%) | 18 (6.6%) | 24 (4.9%) | .04 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry | 7 (3.2%) | 12 (4.4%) | 19 (3.9%) | .48 |
| PT/OT | 8 (3.7%) | 6 (2.2%) | 14 (2.9%) | .33 |
| Pulmonary Rehabilitation | 16 (7.3%) | 33 (12.1%) | 49 (10.0%) | .07 |
| Social Work | 28 (12.8%) | 89 (32.7%) | 117 (23.8%) | <.001 |
| Unscheduled Admissions | 17 (7.8%) | 12 (4.4%) | 29 (5.9%) | .11 |
| Unscheduled Encounters | 41 (18.7%) | 87 (32.0%) | 128 (26.1%) | .001 |
| Advance Care Directive | 20 (9.1%) | 120 (44.1%) | 140 (28.5%) | <.001 |
| Proxy Decision Maker | 0 (0.0%) | 42 (15.4%) | 42 (15.4%) | <.001 |
| Power of Attorney | 1 (0.5%) | 118 (43.4%) | 119 (24.2%) | <.001 |
| Do Not Resuscitate | 10 (4.6%) | 47 (17.3%) | 57 (11.6%) | <.001 |
| Chemo in the last 2 weeks (N=45) | 3 (14.3%) | 4 (16.7%) | 7 (15.6%) | 1.00 |
| Hospice Referral | 11 (52.4%) | 11 (45.8%) | 22 (48.9%) | .66 |
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For patients who answered yes only