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BMC Palliat Care ; 20(1): 48, 2021 Mar 23.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33757502

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BACKGROUND: Due to the ageing population in Hong Kong, the importance and need of palliative care and end-of-life (EOL) care are coming under the spotlight. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the attitudes of emergency doctors in providing palliative and EOL care in Hong Kong, and to investigate the educational needs of emergency doctors in these areas. METHODS: A questionnaire was used to study the attitudes of ED doctors of six different hospitals in Hong Kong. The questionnaire recorded the attitudes of the doctors towards the role of palliative and EOL care in EDs, the specific obstacles faced, their comfort level and further educational needs in providing such care. The attitudes of emergency doctors of EDs with EOL care services were compared with those of EDs without such services. RESULTS: In total, 145 emergency doctors completed the questionnaire, of which 60 respondents were from EDs with EOL care services. A significant number of participants recognized that the management of the dying process was essential in ED. Providing palliative and EOL care is also accepted as an important competence and responsibility, but the role and priority of palliative and EOL care in ED are uncertain. Lack of time and access to palliative care specialists/ teams were the major barriers. Doctors from EDs with EOL care services are more comfortable in providing such care and discuss it with patients and their relatives. Further educational needs were identified, including the management of physical complaints, communication skills, and EOL care ethics. CONCLUSIONS: The study identified obstacles in promoting palliative and EOL care in the EDs Hong Kong. With the combination of elements of routine ED practice and a basic palliative medicine skill set, it would promote the development of palliative and EOL care in Emergency Medicine in the future.


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Cuidados Paliativos , Assistência Terminal , Atitude do Pessoal de Saúde , Estudos Transversais , Hong Kong , Humanos , Autorrelato
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Am J Emerg Med ; 37(8): 1433-1438, 2019 08.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30355477

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OBJECTIVE: To derive a clinical prediction rule to predict pneumonia in patients with acute febrile respiratory illness to emergency departments. METHOD: This was a prospective multicentre study. 537 adults were recruited. Those requiring resuscitation or were hypoxaemic on presentation were excluded. Pneumonia was defined as new onset infiltrates on chest X-ray (CXR), or re-attendance within 7 days and diagnosed clinically as having pneumonia. A predictive model, the Acute Febrile Respiratory Illness (AFRI) rule was derived by logistic regression analysis based on clinical parameters. The AFRI rule was internally validated with bootstrap resampling and was compared with the Diehr and Heckerling rule. RESULTS: In the 363 patients who underwent CXR, 100 had CXR confirmed pneumonia. There were 7 weighted factors within the ARFI rule, which on summation, gave the AFRI score: age ≥ 65 (1 point), peak temperature within 24 h ≥ 40 °C (2 points), fever duration ≥3 days (2 points), sore throat (-2 points), abnormal breath sounds (1 point), history of pneumonia (1 point) and SpO2 ≤ 96% (1 point). With the bootstrap resampling, the AFRI rule was found to be more accurate than the Diehr and Heckerling rule (area under ROC curve 0.816, 0.721 and 0.566 respectively, p < 0.001). At a cut-off of AFRI≥0, the rule was found to have 95% sensitivity, with a negative predictive value of 97.2%. Using the AFRI score, we found CXR could be avoided for patients having a score of <0. CONCLUSION: AFRI score could assist emergency physicians in identifying pneumonia patients among all adult patients presented to ED for acute febrile respiratory illness.


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Regras de Decisão Clínica , Febre/etiologia , Pneumonia/diagnóstico , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Serviço Hospitalar de Emergência/estatística & dados numéricos , Feminino , Febre/diagnóstico , Hong Kong , Humanos , Modelos Logísticos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Pneumonia/diagnóstico por imagem , Valor Preditivo dos Testes , Estudos Prospectivos , Curva ROC , Radiografia Torácica , Índice de Gravidade de Doença , Adulto Jovem
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