Program of palliative cancer care--our experience

Title:

Program of palliative cancer care--our experience
Program of palliative cancer care--our experience

Creator:

Slánská, Iva, Kopecký, Jindřich, and Filip, Stanislav

Contributor:

Slánská, Iva, Kopecký, Jindřich , 1982-, and Filip, Stanislav , 1961-

Identifier:

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Subject:

mladiství, dospělí, staří, staří nad 80 let, ženské pohlaví, služby domácí péče--organizace a řízení, péče v hospici--organizace a řízení, lidé, mužské pohlaví, lidé středního věku, nádory--mortalita--patologie--terapie, onkologické služby nemocnice--organizace a řízení, paliativní péče--organizace a řízení, and mladý dospělý

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Format:

print, text, and regular print

Description:

INTRODUCTION: Annually more than 27,000 persons die of cancer in the Czech Republic and the overall incidence of malignancies is still increasing. These data shows the need for affordable and good follow-up care especially for patients without any cancer treatment due to irreversible progression of tumor. Currently the outpatient palliative cancer care gets more into the forefront. Prerequisite for a well working outpatient palliative care is cooperation with general practitioners and home health care agencies. The purpose of the so called program of palliative cancer care is to guide a patient in palliative cancer care and to improve the cooperation among health care providers. METHODS: During the period from January 2008 to October 2010 we evaluated in patient without any oncology treatment due to irreversible progression of tumor. RESULTS: In palliative outpatient clinic we treated 446 patients, 119 of them received home care services with average length of 27.8 days. 77 patients died at home, 51 in health facilities and 41 in inpatient hospice care. CONCLUSION: We present pilot study focusing on outpatient palliative cancer care which shows the real benefit from early indication of palliative cancer care. This type of care allows patients to stay as long as possible at home among their close relatives. and I. Slánská, J. Kopecký, S. Filip

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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Coverage:

Česká republika

Relation:

Acta medica (Hradec Králové) / Universitas Carolina, Facultas Medica Hradec Králové--MED00010947

Source:

Acta medica (Hradec Králové) | 2013 Volume:56 | Number:1

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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Date:

2013