{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Romano AM"],"funding":["NCI NIH HHS","U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services"],"pagination":["318-323"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC5344633"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["22(3)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Background</h4>Early palliative care for advanced cancer patients improves quality of life and survival, but less is known about its effect on intensive care unit (ICU) use at the end of life. This analysis assessed the effect of a comprehensive early palliative care program on ICU use and other outcomes among patients with advanced cancer.<h4>Patients and methods</h4>A retrospective cohort of patients with advanced cancer enrolled in an early palliative care program (<i>n</i> = 275) was compared with a concurrent control group of patients receiving standard care (<i>n</i> = 195) during the same time period by using multivariable logistic regression analysis. The multidisciplinary outpatient palliative care program used early end-of-life care planning, weekly interdisciplinary meetings"],"journal":["The oncologist"],"pubmed_title":["Early Palliative Care Reduces End-of-Life Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Use but Not ICU Course in Patients with Advanced Cancer."],"pmcid":["PMC5344633"],"funding_grant_id":["1C1CMS331031","P30 CA044579"],"pubmed_authors":["Havard R","Barclay J","Harrison JH","Stukenborg GJ","Blackhall LJ","Romano AM","Dillon PM","Nielsen G","Read PW","Gade KE"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Early Palliative Care Reduces End-of-Life Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Use but Not ICU Course in Patients with Advanced Cancer.","description":"<h4>Background</h4>Early palliative care for advanced cancer patients improves quality of life and survival, but less is known about its effect on intensive care unit (ICU) use at the end of life. This analysis assessed the effect of a comprehensive early palliative care program on ICU use and other outcomes among patients with advanced cancer.<h4>Patients and methods</h4>A retrospective cohort of patients with advanced cancer enrolled in an early palliative care program (<i>n</i> = 275) was compared with a concurrent control group of patients receiving standard care (<i>n</i> = 195) during the same time period by using multivariable logistic regression analysis. The multidisciplinary outpatient palliative care program used early end-of-life care planning, weekly interdisciplinary meetings","dates":{"release":"2017-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2017 Mar","modification":"2025-04-19T08:27:35.55Z","creation":"2019-03-26T23:04:12Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC5344633","cross_references":{"pubmed":["28220023"],"doi":["10.1634/theoncologist.2016-0227"]}}