PALLIATIVE ASSESSMENT COHORT IN THE GERIATRIC EMERGENCY SETTING

"No systematic approach exists for symptom assessment, management, and reporting in delivered basic palliative care within the Danish healthcare system, implying considerable variation in hospital-based palliative care. The PALMA study consists of two superior phases divided in a development and an implementation stage that anchors basic palliative assessment and management within existing geriatric workflows and cross-sectoral collaborative care.~The PALMA cohort will test the applicability of the EORTC-C15-PAL questionnaire along with measures of clinical frailty and sociodemographic risk factors.~The development phase will enable the development of a clinical algorithm for elderly patients' need for cross-sectoral palliation care planning."

Observational design