Palliative Care Needs in Primary Health Care : Characteristics of Patients with Advanced Cancer and Dementia
INTRODUCTION: The increase in life expectancy brought a higher prevalence of chronic diseases, with an emphasis on those who reached advanced stages and required palliative care. We aimed to characterize patients diagnosed with advanced neoplasms and/or dementia accompanied in primary health care and to test the sensitivity of two tools for identifying patients with palliative needs.
METHODS: We recruited three voluntary family physicians who provided data relative to 623 patients with active codification for neoplasm and/or dementia on the MIMUF platform. We defined 'patient with palliative needs' as any patient with this codification in advanced stadium and made their clinical and sociodemographic characterization. Assuming the existence of advanced-stage disease as the gold standard, we calculated and compared the sensitivities of each of the tools under study: the surprise question, the question 'do you think this patient has palliative needs?' and an instrument that corresponded to identification by at least one of the questions.
RESULTS: Among the analyzed data, there were 559 (89.7%) active codifications of neoplasm and 64 (10.3%) of dementia; the prevalence of advanced neoplasm and dementia was 1.0% in the studied sample. The subgroup of patients with advanced dementia showed female sex predominance, an older age, and less access to health care. In both subgroups there was a scarcity of data related to education and income, and we observed polypharmacotherapy and multimorbidity. The sensitivity of the surprise question was 33.3% for neoplasia and 69.3% for dementia; of the new tool 50.0% for neoplasia and 92.3% for dementia; and, when used together, 55.6% for neoplasia and 92.3% for dementia.
CONCLUSION: Our results help characterize two subpopulations of patients in need of palliative care and advance with a possible tool for their identification, to be confirmed in a representative sample.
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2024 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:37 |
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Acta medica portuguesa - 37(2024), 2 vom: 01. Feb., Seite 90-99 |
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Portugiesisch |
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Necessidades Paliativas em Cuidados de Saúde Primários: Características dos Doentes com Neoplasia e Demência Avançadas |
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| Beteiligte Personen: |
Pires, Luís [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Completed 05.02.2024 Date Revised 05.02.2024 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
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| 520 | |a METHODS: We recruited three voluntary family physicians who provided data relative to 623 patients with active codification for neoplasm and/or dementia on the MIMUF platform. We defined 'patient with palliative needs' as any patient with this codification in advanced stadium and made their clinical and sociodemographic characterization. Assuming the existence of advanced-stage disease as the gold standard, we calculated and compared the sensitivities of each of the tools under study: the surprise question, the question 'do you think this patient has palliative needs?' and an instrument that corresponded to identification by at least one of the questions | ||
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| 520 | |a CONCLUSION: Our results help characterize two subpopulations of patients in need of palliative care and advance with a possible tool for their identification, to be confirmed in a representative sample | ||
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