2023
DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.49731
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Social Work Staffing and Use of Palliative Care Among Recently Hospitalized Veterans

Abstract: ImportancePalliative care improves quality of life for patients and families but may be underused.ObjectiveTo assess the association of an intervention to increase social work staffing in Veterans Health Administration primary care teams with use of palliative care among veterans with a recent hospitalization.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsThis cohort study used differences-in-differences analyses of the change in palliative care use associated with implementation of the Social Work Patient Aligned Care Team… Show more

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“…The effectiveness measures evaluated were number of Veterans in a month with any social work engagement, hospitalizations, emergency department use, and palliative care use. The methods are explained in detail in previously published work ( 12 , 13 ). For the “adoption” domain, sites were designated as “eligible” for the Staffing Program if more than 50% of Veterans in primary care lived in rural or highly rural areas based on ZIP codes, or if more than 50% Veterans engaged with social work are from rural or highly rural areas.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The effectiveness measures evaluated were number of Veterans in a month with any social work engagement, hospitalizations, emergency department use, and palliative care use. The methods are explained in detail in previously published work ( 12 , 13 ). For the “adoption” domain, sites were designated as “eligible” for the Staffing Program if more than 50% of Veterans in primary care lived in rural or highly rural areas based on ZIP codes, or if more than 50% Veterans engaged with social work are from rural or highly rural areas.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%