Advancing screening tool for hospice needs and end-of-life decision-making process in the emergency department.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Predicting mortality in the emergency department (ED) is imperative to guide palliative care and end-of-life decisions. However, the clinical usefulness of utilizing the existing screening tools still leaves something to be desired.

Methods

We advanced the screening tool with the A-qCPR (Age, qSOFA (quick sepsis-related organ failure assessment), cancer, Performance Status Scale, and DNR (Do-Not-Resuscitate) risk score model for predicting one-year mortality in the emergency department of Taipei City Hospital of Taiwan with the potential of hospice need and evaluated its performance compared with the existing screening model. We adopted a large retrospective cohort in conjunction with in-time (the trained and the holdout validation cohort) for the development of t

SUBMITTER: Wang YJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10885365 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature