A retrospective study of emergency admission to a palliative care unit of cancer patients at home
Palliative Care Research
; : 911-914, 2015.
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in Japanese
| WPRIM (Western Pacific)
| ID: wpr-377109
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ABSTRACT
Purpose:We evaluated that the current state from which a palliative care unit receives emergency admission of cancer patients at home. Methods:We retrospectively investigated the medical records of 393 cancer patients who hospitalized in our unit between January 2013 and December 2014. The patients were shared with a group of two, schedule admission (schedule group) and emergency admission (emergency group), and it was compared with a result on discharge and with a hospitalization period. We investigated admission process, the date and time of admission, and reason for admission in emergency group. Results:The number of patients was 224 of schedule group and 169 of emergency group. The mortality rates were 81% in schedule group and 78% in emergency group (not significant). An emergency group for an average of 24.3 days was shorter for 9 days than schedule groups in a hospitalization period of dead leaving patients (p<0.05). In emergency group, admission process included 128 completed-interviews with the hospitalization, 11 incompleted-interviews before admission and 30 first visits, and 129 patients (76%) admitted within the weekday daytime. Many patients had a complaint of severe pain, appetite loss and oral absorption difficulty, and so much. Conclusions:An emergency group admitted the various processes and the much symptom. There were a lot of cases of early hospital death, but also admitted return at home, and our unit played the role of emergency admission.
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Database:
WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Type of study:
Observational study
Language:
Japanese
Journal:
Palliative Care Research
Year:
2015
Document type:
Article