We explored the difference in daily hospital costs between patients who died with and without the support of the hospital palliative care team from January 2019 to April 2020. Big data from registries of routine visits were used for case-control matching. As secondary outcomes, we compared the groups over the duration of the terminal hospitalization, intensive care unit (ICU) days, intravenous antibiotics, magnetic resonance imaging/computed tomography scans, oncological treatment in the last month of life, and documentation of the dying phase. In total, 213 dyads were identified. The average daily costs were three times lower in the palliative group than in the nonpalliative group, and the difference was probably associated with the shorter time spent in the ICU (16% vs. 33% of hospital days).
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