ArticleSupportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer2017
Characteristics of advanced cancer patients who were readmitted to an acute palliative/supportive care unit.
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- Understanding oncologic emergencies and related emergency department visits and hospitalizations: a systematic review.BMC emergency medicine · 2025Pooled it
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- Bayesian Network Analysis for Prediction of Unplanned Hospital Readmissions of Cancer Patients with Breakthrough Cancer Pain and Complex Care Needs.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Factors Related to Family Caregivers' Readiness for the Hospital Discharge of Advanced Cancer Patients.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Evaluation of early unplanned readmissions and predisposing factors in an oncology clinic.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021Article
- Factors associated with a 30-day unplanned readmission after elective spine surgery: a retrospective cohort study.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2021Article
- Table in the corner: a qualitative study of life situation and perspectives of the everyday lives of oesophageal cancer patients in palliative care.BMC palliative care · 2019Article
- Characteristics and care pathways of advanced cancer patients in a palliative-supportive care unit and an oncological ward.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectivesThe aim of this study was to assess the characteristics of patients readmitted to an acute supportive/palliative care unit (ASPCU), the reasons for readmission, and the outcome after receiving specialistic assessment and treatment.
methodsA consecutive sample of patients was assessed for a period of 10 months. Epidemiological characteristics, including age, gender, Karnofsky level, diagnosis, caregivers, education, disease awareness, kind of admission, and anticancer treatment in the previous 30 days, were recorded, as well as hospital stay, death, and discharge at home. The principal reasons for admission were recorded. Symptom intensity and opioid doses, expressed as oral morphine equivalents, were also measured.
resultsIn the study period, 79 (25.2%) readmissions were recorded. Thirty-seven (46.8%) readmissions occurred within 30 days after discharge. Pain was more frequently reported as indication for admission at the first and the second readmission in comparison with the first admission. The burden of symptoms was significantly higher in patients with a readmission in comparison with patients at the first admission. Opioid doses, expressed as oral morphine equivalents, were significantly different between the first admission and readmissions. In both patients at the first admission or readmission, a significant decrease in symptom intensity has been reported at discharge.
conclusionAbout 25% of patients discharged from an ASCPU are expected to be readmitted for reemerging of clinical problems. Re-exacerbation of pain seems to be the most frequent reason. A further clinical reassessment and treatment were equally effective in controlling the symptom burden of these patients at any readmission.
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