We have been meeting with our clinical analytics team and would like some clarification on if having an order for a palliative care consult would be included as a comfort measures intervention. Someone from our clinical analytics team pulled up these notes for abstraction (below), and from that definition I believe that only having an order for a palliative care consult (this is an order to have the palliative care physicians / APNs meet with the patient and/or family to discuss plan of care and their preference on code status) would NOT be considered as a comfort measures intervention.

Notes for Abstraction: Only accept terms identified in the list of inclusions. No other terminology will be accepted.
Physician / APN / PA documentation of comfort measures only (hospice, comfort care, etc...) mentioned in the following contexts suffices:

• Comfort measures only recommendation
• Order for consultation or evaluation by a hospice care service
• Patient or family request for comfort measures only
• Plan for comfort measures only
• Referral to hospice care service