Annals of emergency medicine
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We describe 11 clinical demonstrations of emergency department (ED) and palliative care integration to include traditional consultation services with hospital-based palliative care consultants through advanced integration demonstrations in which the ED provides subspecialty palliative care practice. ⋯ A variety of methods to integrate palliative care in the emergency setting have emerged. Few programs collect outcomes-based metrics, and there is a lack of standardization about what metrics are tracked when tracking occurs.