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Emergency calls and need for emergency care in patients looked after by a palliative care team: Retrospective interview study with bereaved relatives by Christoph HR Wiese; Andrea Vossen-Wellmann; Hannah C Morgenthal; Aron F Popov; Bernhard M Graf; Gerd G Hanekop is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background During the last stage of life, palliative care patients often experience episodes of respiratory distress, bleeding, pain or seizures. In such situations, caregivers may call emergency medical services leading to unwanted hospital admissions. The study aims to show the influence of our palliative care team to reducing emergency calls by cancer patients or their relatives during the last six month of life. ## Methods Fifty relatives of deceased patients who had been attended by our palliative care team were randomly selected. Data was obtained retrospectively during a structured interview. In addition to demographic data, the number of emergency calls made during the final six months of the patient's life, the reason for the call and the mental compound score (MCS-12) of the caregivers was registered. ## Results Forty-six relatives agreed to the interview. Emergency calls were placed for 18 patients (39%) during the final six months of their lives. There were a total of 23 emergency calls. In 16 cases (70%) the patient was admitted to the hospital. Twenty-one (91%) of the calls were made before patients had been enrolled to receive palliative care from the team, and tw
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- Author
- Christoph HR Wiese; Andrea Vossen-Wellmann; Hannah C Morgenthal; Aron F Popov; Bernhard M Graf; Gerd G Hanekop
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, 2002-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 1472-684X)
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)