[The impact of patient identification on an integrated program of palliative care in Basque Country]. / Impacto de la identificación de pacientes en un programa de cuidados paliativos del País Vasco.
Larrañaga, Igor; Millas, Jesús; Soto-Gordoa, Myriam; Arrospide, Arantzazu; San Vicente, Ricardo; Irizar, Marisa; Lanzeta, Itziar; Mar, Javier.
Aten Primaria
; 51(2): 80-90, 2019 02.
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em Espanhol
| MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29221947
OBJECTIVE:
Evaluate the process and the economic impact of an integrated palliative care program.DESIGN:
Comparative cross-sectional study. LOCATION Integrated Healthcare Organizations of Alto Deba and Goierri Alto-Urola, Basque Country.PARTICIPANTS:
Patients dead due to oncologic and non-oncologic causes in 2012 (control group) and 2015 (intervention group) liable to need palliative care according to McNamara criteria.INTERVENTIONS:
Identification as palliative patients in primary care, use of common clinical pathways in primary and secondary care and arrange training courses for health professionals. MAINMEASURES:
Change in the resource use profile of patients in their last 3 months. Propensity score by genetic matching method was used to avoid non-randomization bias. The groups were compared by univariate analysis and the relationships between variables were analysed by logistic regressions and generalized linear models.RESULTS:
One thousand and twenty-three patients were identified in 2012 and 1,142 patients in 2015. In 2015 doubled the probability of being identify as palliative patient in deaths due to oncologic (19-33%) and non-oncologic causes (7-16%). Prescriptions of opiates rise (25-68%) and deaths in hospital remained stable. Contacts per patient with primary care and home hospitalization increased, while contacts with hospital admissions decreased. Cost per patient rise 26%.CONCLUSIONS:
The integrated palliative care model increased the identification of the target population. Relationships between variables showed that the identification had a positive impact on prescription of opiates, death outside the hospital and extension to non-oncologic diseases. Although the identification decreased admissions in hospital, costs per patient had a slight increase due to home hospitalizations.
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