Wolff, Johannes and Robert, Rhonda and Sommerer, Andre and Volz-Fleckenstein, Marlene (2010) Impact of a Pediatric Palliative Care Program. PEDIATRIC BLOOD & CANCER, 54 (2). pp. 279-283. ISSN 1545-5009, 1545-5017
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Background. The question of where a child should die at home or in the hospital has been a Subject of recent debate. We instituted a palliative care program with advanced end-of-life planning and hypothesized that a significant number of families Would prefer that their child be at home rather than at a hospital at the end-of-life and that the overall quality of care Would thereby improve. Procedure. Study design was single group, retrospective parent report of satisfaction with a new palliative care program. Participants were the caregivers, primarily parents, involved in the palliative care program. They completed a satisfaction Survey, and their choice of environment at the end-of-life was noted. Results. Fifty-one families experienced the death of a child between 2001 and 2003. Most of the patients had had cancer (n = 29, 57%), and the most frequent non-oncologic patient had had cystic fibrosis. The parents (caregiver) participation rate was 69%. After a palliative care program was instituted, 69% of families preferred their child to be at home at the end-of-life, compared with 18% before the program was instituted (P=0.0049 chi(2)-test). The satisfaction with the medical services was high (very good, 26; good, 4; satisfying, 2; acceptable, 3; deficient, 0; unacceptable, 0), independent of locale at time of death. Conclusion. When palliative care was offered either at hospital or home, palliative Care Occurred more frequently at home. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2010;54:279-283. (C) 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | CANCER-PATIENTS; HOME-CARE; CHILDREN; ONCOLOGY; MALIGNANCY; PHYSICIANS; DYSPNEA; DEATH; PAIN; hematology/oncology; palliative care; quality of life |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Aug 2020 09:12 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Aug 2020 09:12 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/25255 |
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