Marie-Carmelle Elie, MD is a Site PI on a 5-year 12 Million Dollar Award to NYU from PCORI

Dr. Marie-Carmelle Elie, MD is a site Principal Investigator of a 5-year project titled “Emergency- Department Initiated Palliative Care in Older Adults with Advanced Illness”, which was recently awarded by PCORI to New York University.

This study aims to test the comparative effectiveness of nurse-led telephonic case management versus facilitated, outpatient specialty palliative care on quality of life, healthcare utilization, loneliness in older adults with serious, life-limiting illness.

https://www.pcori.org/research-results/2017/comparing-two-ways-provide-palliative-care-older-adults-serious-illness