Beyond Infection: Mortality and End-of-Life Care Associated with Infectious Disease Consultation in an Academic Health System.
Alison G C SmithMichael E YarringtonArthur W BakerGary M CoxKristen V DicksJohn J EngemannPatricia KohlerAhmad MouradRasha RaslanWil L SantivasiNicholas A TurnerRebekah H WrennSofia ZavalaJason E StoutPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2024)
Patients receiving ID consultation were increasingly complex and more likely to die soon after consultation. These results provide a framework for ID clinicians to consider their role in end-of-life care.