Factors associated with non-beneficial treatments in end of life hospital admissions: a multicentre retrospective cohort study in Australia.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:To quantitatively assess the factors associated with non-beneficial treatments (NBTs) in hospital admissions at the end of life. DESIGN:Retrospective multicentre cohort study. SETTING:Three large, metropolitan tertiary hospitals in Australia. PARTICIPANTS:831 adult patients who died as inpatients following admission to the study hospitals over a 6-month period in 2012. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:Odds ratios (ORs) of NBT derived from logistic regression models. RESULTS:Overall, 103 (12.4%) admissions involved NBTs. Admissions that involved conflict within a patient's family (OR 8.9, 95% CI 4.1 to 18.9) or conflict within the medical team (OR 6.5, 95% CI 2.4 to 17.8) had the strongest associations with NBTs in the all subsets regression model. A positive association was observed in olde

SUBMITTER: Carter HE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6858125 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature