ArticlePalliative medicine2018
Quality of care for the dying across different levels of palliative care development: A population-based cohort study.
Article in Palliative medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Effectiveness of two types of palliative home care in cancer and non-cancer patients: A retrospective population-based study using claims data.Palliative medicine · 2021Article
- Associations between home deaths and end-of-life nursing care trajectories for community-dwelling people: a population-based registry study.BMC health services research · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundThere is a lack of knowledge about how the provision and availability of specialized palliative care relates to the quality of dying in hospital and community-based settings.
aimWe aimed to explore the quality of care during last week of life in relation to different levels of palliative care development.
designWe investigated access to palliative care in Southern Sweden, where one region offers palliative care in accordance with European Association for Palliative Care guidelines for capacity, and the other region offers less developed palliative care. Data on approximately 12,000 deaths during 2015 were collected from the Swedish Register of Palliative Care. The quality of care was investigated by region, and was measured in terms of assessment of oral health and of pain, and end-of-life conversation, companionship at death and artificial nutrition/fluid in the last 24 h.
resultsThe overall quality of care during last week of life was not consistently better in the region with fully developed palliative care compared with the less developed region. In fact, for patients dying in hospitals and community-based settings, the quality was statistically significantly better in the less developed region. The small proportion of patients who had access to specialized palliative care had superior quality of care during the last week of life as compared to patients in other care settings.
conclusionThe capacity of specialized palliative care does not per se influence the quality of care during the last week of life for patients in other settings.
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