How Well Does the Surprise Question Predict 1-year Mortality for Patients Admitted with COPD?

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BACKGROUND: Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often receive burdensome care at end-of-life (EOL) and infrequently complete advance care planning (ACP). The surprise question (SQ) is a prognostic tool that may facilitate ACP.

OBJECTIVE: To assess how well the SQ predicts mortality and prompts ACP for COPD patients.

DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study.

SUBJECTS: Patients admitted to the hospital for an acute exacerbation of COPD between July 2015 and September 2018.

MAIN MEASURES: Emergency department (ED) and inpatient clinicians answered, "Would you be surprised if this patient died in the next 30 days (ED)/one year (inpatient)?" The primary outcome measure was the accuracy of the SQ in predicting 30-day and 1-year mortality. The secondary outcome was the correlation between SQ and ACP (palliative care consultation, documented goals-of-care conversation, change in code status, or completion of ACP document).

KEY RESULTS: The 30-day SQ had a high specificity but low sensitivity for predicting 30-day mortality: sensitivity 12%, specificity 95%, PPV 11%, and NPV 96%. The 1-year SQ demonstrated better accuracy for predicting 1-year mortality: sensitivity 47%, specificity 75%, PPV 35%, and NPV 83%. After multivariable adjustment for age, sex, and prior 6-month admissions, 1-year SQ+ responses were associated with greater odds of 1-year mortality (OR 2.38, 95% CI 1.39-4.08) versus SQ-. One-year SQ+ patients were more likely to have a goals-of-care conversation (25% vs. 11%, p < 0.01) and complete an advance directive or POLST (46% vs. 23%, p < 0.01). After multivariable adjustment, SQ+ responses to the 1-year SQ were associated with greater odds of ACP receipt (OR 2.67, 95% CI 1.64-4.36).

CONCLUSIONS: The 1-year surprise question may be an effective component of prognostication and advance care planning for COPD patients in the inpatient setting.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:36

Enthalten in:

Journal of general internal medicine - 36(2021), 9 vom: 06. Sept., Seite 2656-2662

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tripp, Dana [VerfasserIn]
Janis, Jaclyn [VerfasserIn]
Jarrett, Benjamin [VerfasserIn]
Lucas, F Lee [VerfasserIn]
Strout, Tania D [VerfasserIn]
Han, Paul K J [VerfasserIn]
Stumpf, Isabella [VerfasserIn]
Hutchinson, Rebecca N [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Advance care planning
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Goals-of-care
Journal Article
Prognostication
Surprise question

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Date Completed 21.10.2021

Date Revised 02.09.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11606-020-06512-8

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM31973630X