Outpatient Palliative Care Service Involvement: A Five-Year Experience from a Tertiary Hospital in Switzerland.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The value of early integration of palliative care has been demonstrated increasingly for the past years in both oncological and nononcological diseases. Outpatient palliative care services might represent a feasible approach to implement supportive care in early disease. In this study, we aimed at evaluating which patients use and benefit from outpatient palliative care services, which symptoms are addressed most, and which support services are installed in this early phase of disease.

Methods

We retrospectively analyzed the entire patient collective of a recently developed palliative care outpatient clinic within the leading university hospital in Switzerland for a period of five years. Sociodemographics, symptoms, and information on disease as well as patient-re

SUBMITTER: Birkner DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10797309 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature