Palliative care offered more than 3 months before death appears to decrease the aggressiveness of end-of-life care for patients with ovarian cancer.
Increasing the uptake of palliative care may decrease the aggressiveness of end-of-life care , an analysis of ovarian cancer decedents suggested.
Results of multivariable regression analysis showed that any palliative care started earlier than 3 months before death was associated with lower rates of aggressive end-of-life care , death in the hospital , and ICU admission . “Implementation strategies for early palliative care initiation are needed to optimize care quality and health resource utilization at the end of life,” the authors concluded.
The use of administrative data limited the analysis of the association of palliative care timing with patient-reported outcomes, as well as the concordance of end-of-life care with patient and caregiver preferences.May Hua, MD, associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City, commented on the study for. “One interpretation is that early palliative care prevents healthcare use at the end of life.
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