Estimation of the demand for palliative care in non-oncologic patients in Chile.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Access to palliative care is an emerging global public health challenge. In Chile, a palliative care law was recently enacted to extend palliative care coverage to the non-oncologic population. Thus, a reliable and legitimate estimate of the demand for palliative care is needed for proper health policy planning.

Objective

To estimate the demand for Palliative Care in Chile.

Methodology

Diseases likely to require palliative care were identified according to literature and expert judgement. Annual deaths of diseases identified were estimated for the periods 2018-2020. Demand estimation corresponds to the identification of the proportion of deceased patients requiring palliative care based on the burden of severe health-related suffering. Finally, patient-year

SUBMITTER: Armijo N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9834031 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature