Identifying patients who could benefit from palliative care by making use of the general practice information system: the Surprise Question versus the SPICT.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We compared the performance of two tools to help general practitioners (GPs) identify patients in need of palliative care: the Surprise Question (SQ) and the Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool (SPICT).

Methods

Prospective cohort study in two general practices in the Netherlands with a size of 3640 patients. At the start of the study the GPs selected patients by heart using the SQ. The SPICT was translated into a digital search in electronic patient records. The GPs then selected patients from the list thus created. Afterwards the GPs were interviewed about their experiences. The following year a record was kept of all the patients deceased in both practices. We analysed the characteristics of the patients selected and the deceased. We calculated the per

SUBMITTER: van Wijmen MPS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7571774 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature