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The impact of inpatient palliative care (PC) consultation on short-term post-discharge outcomes, however, remains uncertain. We assessed whether inpatient PC consultation was associated with differences in 30-day post-discharge outcomes.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Using electronic medical records from a tertiary hospital linked with national claims data, we identified patients with lung, stomach, colorectal, liver, or pancreatobiliary cancer who died between 2018 and 2023. Those discharged alive after a hospitalization with inpatient PC consultation were matched 1:1 to patients without PC using propensity scores. Outcomes were 30-day emergency department (ED) visits, hospital readmissions, and intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, 30-day mortality, and total direct medical costs. Fine\u2013Gray competing risk and generalized linear models were used for comparisons.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Among 830 matched individuals, 30-day ED visits (45.8% vs 45.5%; adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 0.95; 95% CI = 0.72 to 1.27) and readmission rates (69.6% vs 72.3%; aOR = 0.86; 95% CI = 0.63 to 1.18) were similar. Intensive care unit admission rates were substantially lower among patients receiving PC (1.9% vs 9.2%; aOR = 0.17; 95% CI = 0.07 to 0.37). The total 30-day medical costs were lower in the PC group (cost ratio = 0.65; 95% CI = 0.55 to 0.76). Thirty-day mortality was higher among patients who required PC (37.6% vs 16.1%).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Inpatient PC consultation was not associated with 30-day ED visits or hospital readmissions but was linked to substantially lower ICU admissions and reduced short-term medical costs.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/jncics\/pkag052","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,7]],"date-time":"2026-05-07T11:38:46Z","timestamp":1778153926000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Association between palliative care consultation and care transition outcomes among hospitalized advanced cancer patients"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0007-9103-5274","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hak 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