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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2025

The Economic Cost of Nursing Care of Palliative Patients in the Emergency Department.

Tânia Dos Santos Afonso, Manuel Luís Capelas, Lurdes Martins

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors.

Tânia Dos Santos AfonsoCenter for Interdisciplinary Research in Health (CIIS), Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 1649-023 Lisbon, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-6015-6555
Manuel Luís CapelasCenter for Interdisciplinary Research in Health (CIIS), Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 1649-023 Lisbon, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-8993-6854
Lurdes MartinsCenter for Interdisciplinary Research in Health (CIIS), Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 1649-023 Lisbon, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-5318-3184

Funding

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia project UIDB/04279/2020Portuguese Palliative Care Association Scholarship Isabel Correia Levy 2020
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

(1) Background: The economic cost of nursing care to palliative patients in avoidable hospital admission is unknown. (2) Methods: An observational, retrospective, and analytical study was used encompassing the economic cost of nursing care in a general hospital emergency department that uses descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. (3) Results: We have a sample of 273 palliative patients in preventable hospital admissions (76.3%, CI 95%: 71.7-80.8), deceased, in 2019. With a median of 84 years, about 80% were admitted home after 5 h of complaints, mainly due to respiratory symptoms. Patients remained for approximately 24 h in the emergency department, totaling a median of EUR 180.98 in nursing care costs per admission. (4) Conclusions: It was evident that with the knowledge obtained about palliative economic nursing costs, we could increase results, manage resources, and consolidate PC integration in health systems, as this study proved. This study was not registered.

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costemergency departmentnursing carepalliative care

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PMID39997296
PMCPMC11854947

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