Nurse practitioner and physician end-of-life home visits and end-of-life outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Physicians and nurse practitioners (NPs) play critical roles in supporting palliative and end-of-life care in the community. We examined healthcare outcomes among patients who received home visits from physicians and NPs in the 90 days before death.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study using linked data of adult home care users in Ontario, Canada, who died between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2019. Healthcare outcomes included medications for pain and symptom management, emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalisations and a community-based death. We compared the characteristics of and outcomes in decedents who received a home visit from an NP, physician and both to those who did not receive a home visit.

Results

Half (56.9%) of adult deced

SUBMITTER: Scott MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11671875 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature