Beyond hospice: the burden of palliative care needs in hospitals and long-term care facilities. A nationwide multicenter study.

Prevalence was higher among patients with cancer (77.2% in hospital; 61.5% in long-term care facilities), but remained substantial among those without cancer (50.8% in hospital; 46.8% in long-term care facilities).

Functional decline (56.2% hospital; 48.7% long-term care facilities), nutritional decline (36.6%; 23.9%), dysphagia (17.6%; 28.8%), delirium (19.2%; 36.4%), and moderate-to-severe pain (25.9%; 20.3%) were common across settings.