Gruhler H, et al. - In the acute care setting to improve identification of patients who would benefit from palliative care services, researchers determined palliative care penetration rates using a hospital-based electronic palliative care algorithm developed by Intermountain Healthcare, in collaboration with Cerner Corporation. This study successfully optimized an electronic palliative care identification algorithm with a Positive Predictive Values (PPV) of 80.1% and indicates appropriate palliative care penetration rates may be as high as 26.4% of the total inpatient population.