Drug landscape in patients receiving general outpatient palliative care in Germany: results from a retrospective analysis of 10,464 patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

According to § 27 and § 87 1b of the German Social Code, Book V, general outpatient palliative care (GOPC) aims to promote, maintain, and improve the quality of life and self-determination of seriously ill people. It should enable them to live in dignity until death in their preferred environment. Instead of a curative approach GOPC treatment focuses on the multiprofessional objective of alleviating symptoms and suffering on a case-by-case basis using medication or other measures, as well as the management of an individual treatment plan. The aim of this study was therefore to investigate to what extent medication differs from 12 months prior GOPC treatment within 12 months following GOPC treatment.

Methods

A retrospective database cross sectional study based on t

SUBMITTER: Loosen SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10439623 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature