[Palliative home care in Westfalia-Lippe--baseline study 12 and 36 months after coming into effect of the "agreement to the implementation of ambulant home palliative careforterminally ill patients"]. / Ambulante Palliativversorgung in Westfalen-Lippe--Strukturierte Bestandsaufnahme 12 und 36 Monate nach Inkrafttreten der "Vereinbarung zur Umsetzung der ambulanten palliativmedizinischen Versorgung von unheilbar Kranken im häuslichen Umfeld".
MMW Fortschr Med
; 155 Suppl 2: 44-50, 2013 Jul 25.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
On 2009-04-01 the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians Westfalia-Lippe and health insurance organizations made an agreement to implement palliative home care for terminally ill patients. Based on this agreement, family doctors and palliativecardoctorscooperate,supported by coordinators.METHOD:
12 and 36 months after coming into effect of the agreement a questionnaire was sent to the regional palliative care networks to collect data about supply structure, number of patients and their place of death.RESULTS:
In the year 2011 85,410 people died in Westfalia-Lippe, 9.0% of them were included in palliative care structures. 69.5% of the included patients died at home, 9.9% in hospital (in 2010 68.7% at home, 14.7% in hospital). A correlation between the population density or the number of included patients per palliative networkcould not be detected.CONCLUSION:
Low-threshold access to palliative care networks(bothfamilydoctorand patientcancontact the palliative care team at any time) improves ambulant palliative care. Non-bureaucratic change from general home palliative care (German abbreviation AAPV) to specialized home palliative care (SAPV) has proven successful in Westfalia-Lippe. Well-trained and experienced coordinators guarantee multidisciplinary and multiprofessional working of palliative care teams. In order to enhance palliative care in Westfalia-Lippe, data for quality assurance should be defined, periodically collected and evaluated in the future.
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Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Cuidados Paliativos
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Cuidados Paliativos al Final de la Vida
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Servicios de Atención de Salud a Domicilio
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Programas Nacionales de Salud
Límite:
Humans
País como asunto:
Europa
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Año:
2013
Tipo del documento:
Article