Palliative Care Is High Value Care: Citations

The 'Palliative Care Is High Value Care' infographic introduces your organization leaders, referrers, and health plans to the quality, satisfaction, utilization, and cost improvements resulting from palliative care.

1. Kavalieratos D, Corbelli J, Zhang D, et al. Association Between Palliative Care and Patient and Caregiver Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA. 2016;316(20):2104-2114. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.16840
2. Kaye EC, Weaver MS, DeWitt LH, et al. The Impact of Specialty Palliative Care in Pediatric Oncology: A Systematic Review. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2021;61(5):1060-1079.e2. doi:10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.12.003
3. Haroen H, Maulana S, Harun H, et al. The benefits of early palliative care on psychological well-being, functional status, and health-related quality of life among cancer patients and their caregivers: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Palliat Care. 2025;24(1):120. Published 2025 Apr 28. doi:10.1186/s12904-025-01737-y
   
4. This is a multi-state palliative care program that boasts a net promoter score that is more than double the U.S. health care benchmark, with more than 93% of patients saying they would recommend the services. Carelon. Accessed December 29, 2025. https://www.carelon.com/capabilities/palliative-care.
5. Zaborowski N, Scheu A, Glowacki N, Lindell M, Battle-Miller K. Early Palliative Care Consults Reduce Patients' Length of Stay and Overall Hospital Costs. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2022;39(11):1268-1273. doi:10.1177/10499091211067811
   
6. Wang DH, Heidt R. Emergency Department Embedded Palliative Care Service Creates Value for Health Systems. J Palliat Med. 2023;26(5):646-652. doi:10.1089/jpm.2022.0245
   
7. May P, Garrido MM, Del Fabbro E, et al. Evaluating Hospital Readmissions for Persons With Serious and Complex Illness: A Competing Risks Approach. Med Care Res Rev. 2020;77(6):574-583. doi:10.1177/1077558718823919
   
8. Bharadwaj P, Gill G, Dyjack N, et al. Impact of Outpatient Palliative Care Services on Resource Utilization and Cost Management in a Capitated Medicare Population. J Palliat Med. 2025;28(8):1092-1095. doi:10.1089/jpm.2024.0325
   
9. Rao K, Goldstein NE, Peikes DN, Polt L, Kornitzer B. Effects of Primary Care-Led, Integrated Palliative Care for Medicare Patients in a Value-Based Model. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2024;67(3):195-203. doi:10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2023.11.006
   
10. Bower KA, Lau M, Short R, Lawrence S, Beauchamp-Walters J, Marc-Aurele K. Impact of Home-Based Pediatric Palliative Care on Hospital and Emergency Department Utilization at a Single Institution. J Palliat Med. 2022;25(2):301-306. doi:10.1089/jpm.2021.0307
    
11. Joo MK, Yoo JW, Mojtahedi Z, et al. Ten-year trends of utilizing palliative care and palliative procedures in patients with gastric Cancer in the United States from 2009 to 2018 - a nationwide database study. BMC Health Serv Res. 2022;22(1):20. Published 2022 Jan 4. doi:10.1186/s12913-021-07404-1
    
12. Bevins J, Bhulani N, Goksu SY, et al. Early Palliative Care Is Associated With Reduced Emergency Department Utilization in Pancreatic Cancer. Am J Clin Oncol. 2021;44(5):181-186. doi:10.1097/COC.0000000000000802
    
13. Elkaryoni A, Sperry BW, Royce A, et al. Hospitalization Rates Before and After Palliative Care Utilization for Heart Failure Patients (from a Nationwide Sample). Am J Cardiol. 2021;145:169-170. doi:10.1016/j.amjcard.2021.02.002
    
14. Sahlollbey N, Lee CKS, Shirin A, Joseph P. The impact of palliative care on clinical and patient-centred outcomes in patients with advanced heart failure: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Eur J Heart Fail. 2020;22(12):2340-2346. doi:10.1002/ejhf.1783
    
15. Yazdanyar A, Guthier D, Maitz T, et al. Inpatient palliative care encounter and 30-day readmission among hospitalizations for heart failure. Future Cardiol. 2022;18(10):809-816. doi:10.2217/fca-2022-0041
    
16. Xie Z, Chen G, Oladeru OT, et al. Inpatient Palliative Care and Healthcare Utilization Among Older Patients With Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia (ADRD) and High Risk of Mortality in U.S. Hospitals. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2025;42(3):261-272. doi:10.1177/10499091241252685
    
17. Chettiar A, Montez-Rath M, Liu S, Hall YN, O'Hare AM, Kurella Tamura M. Association of Inpatient Palliative Care with Health Care Utilization and Postdischarge Outcomes among Medicare Beneficiaries with End Stage Kidney Disease. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2018;13(8):1180-1187. doi:10.2215/CJN.00180118
    
18. Ali SS, Vadlakonda A, Ali K, et al. Increasing Utilization of Palliative Care is Associated With Reduced Health Care Costs in Operative Trauma: A National Analysis. Am Surg. 2025;91(10):1770-1777. doi:10.1177/00031348251359119
    
19. Yazdanyar A, Vojtek A, Gupta S, et al. Association between inpatient palliative care encounter and 30-day all-cause readmissions after index hospitalization for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Heart Lung. 2023;58:69-73. doi:10.1016/j.hrtlng.2022.11.003