ArticleSupportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer2016
Constipation in specialized palliative care: factors related to constipation when applying different definitions.
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- Efficacy of prophylactic laxatives against opioid-induced constipation: retrospective propensity score matching analysis.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025Article
- Association between hospital palliative care team intervention volume and patient outcomes.International journal of clinical oncology · 2024Article
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- The effect of intermittent versus continuous enteral feeding for critically ill patients: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Review
- 'Take more laxatives was their answer to everything': A qualitative exploration of the patient, carer and healthcare professional experience of constipation in specialist palliative care.Palliative medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
contextFor patients in palliative care, constipation is primarily a result of opioid treatment. Impacts from other factors related to constipation in palliative care are rarely studied.
objectivesThe aim was to identify factors related to constipation in patients in palliative care, and then to compare these factors between patients with different types of constipation and patients without constipation.
methodsCross-sectional data on constipation was collected with a 26-item questionnaire from 485 patients in 38 specialist palliative care units in Sweden. Three different constipation groups were used; MC ONLY, PC ONLY, and MC & PC. Logistic regression analyses were used to calculate odds ratios.
resultsPatients with <3 defecations/week, MC ONLY, (n = 36) had higher odds of being hospitalized, bed-restricted, in need of personal assistance for toilet visits, and of having a poor fluid intake. Patients with the perception of being constipated, PC ONLY, (n = 93) had higher odds of having poor appetite, hemorrhoids, hard stool, more opioid treatment, less laxative treatment and of being more dissatisfied with constipation information. Patients with both <3 defecations/week and a perception of being constipated, MC & PC, (n = 78) had higher odds of having cancer- disease.
conclusionThere were several significant factors related to constipation with higher odds than opioid- treatment, for patients in palliative care, such as; hard stool, cancer diagnosis, dissatisfaction with information, low fluid intake, hemorrhoids, bed restriction, hospitalization, and need of personal assistance for toilet visits.
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