Yes, patients can go to hospice from the ED

(From Brigham and Women's, anyway.)

The emergency department isn’t the right place to start a conversation about end-of-life and hospice care. And most emergency physicians would agree they aren’t the right ones to start it.

It’s unsurprising, then, that when patients appropriate for hospice care arrive at the ED in dire straits near the end of their lives, they’re often admitted to the IC…