Sixty-one percent of patients with a diagnosis of delirium by a palliative care specialist were missed by the primary referring team. Patients with MD were frequently referred for pain. Universal screening of cancer patients for delirium is recommended.

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appointment (17%) adherence, respectively. Yet, none of these variables or others were associated with worse survival (Table ). The only variable found to be associated with worse survival was living alone (HR 1.76, p=0.02) but this was no longer significant when adjusted for gender and age (p=0.39). Interestingly, a conclusion of "significant or serious" overall psychosocial concerns by a clinical psychologist was also not shown to be associated with worse survival (p=0.47). Conclusions: In this study, psychosocial variables were not predictive of worse survival in patients undergoing LVAD implantation. However, whether psychosocial risk is associated with an increase in adverse events and/or hospital readmissions in LVAD patients warrants further exploration.