Children with cancer at the end of life in a middle-income country: integrated pediatric palliative care improves outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2020, the Global Cancer Observatory reported 280,000 cases of childhood cancer worldwide, with a higher burden of disease and mortality rates in low- and middle-income countries. In 2022, the National Institute of Health reported 1708 new cases of childhood cancer in Colombia and an overall survival rate of approximately 55%. The aim of this study is to compare outcomes in children with cancer in the hospital setting during the last 72 h of life who received concurrent Pediatric Palliative Care (PPC) versus oncology care alone.

Methods

An observational descriptive study was conducted between January 2013 and June 2022 in a center for pediatric patients with oncological diagnoses. In 2017, the PPC team was created. Patients between 28 days and 17 years of age wh

SUBMITTER: Cuervo-Suarez MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10836057 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature