Emergency Department-Initiated Hospice and Palliative Care Consultation Among Older Adults: Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Satheesh Gunaga   ^{1, 2} , DO ;   Kei Ouchi   ³ , MD ;   Shan W Liu   ^{4, 5} , MD ;   Dimitri Lin   , BS ;   Alison Hay   ⁶ , MD ;   Katherine Selman   ⁷ , MD ;   Daniel Markwalter   ⁸ , MD ;   Justin Brooten   ⁹ , MD ;   Alex Ginsburg   ¹⁰ , MD ;   Sarah Pajka   ¹¹ , MD ;   Eric Isaacs   ¹² , MD ;   Dennis Smythe   ² , MD ;   Kirby Swan   ² , BS ;   Naomi George   ¹³ , MD ;   Joshua Davis   ¹⁴ , MD ;   Erica Westlake   ¹⁵ , MD ;   Murtaza Akhter   ¹⁶ , MD ;   Naomi Rebollo Lee   ¹⁷ , MD ;   Rita Manfredi   ¹⁸ , MD ;   Paul Bain   ¹⁹ , MS ;   Fabrice Mowbray   ^{1, 20} , PhD

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Wyandotte, MI, United States

² College of Osteopathic Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States

³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

⁶ Department of Emergency Medicine, Wexford General Hospital, Wexford, Ireland

⁷ Department of Emergency Medicine, Cooper Hospital University Medical Center, Camden, NJ, United States

⁸ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

⁹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, United States

¹⁰ Department of Emergency Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States

¹¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

¹² Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

¹³ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States

¹⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, United States

¹⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA, United States

¹⁶ Department of Emergency Medicine, Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ, United States

¹⁷ Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbia University, New York City, NY, United States

¹⁸ Department of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States

¹⁹ Countway Library, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

²⁰ College of Nursing, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States