Hirvonen , O M , Leskelä , R-L , Gronholm , L , Haltia , O , Rissanen , A , Tyynela-Korhonen , K , Rahko , E K , Lehto , J T & Saarto , T 2019 , ' Assessing the utilization of the decision to implement a palliative goal for the treatment of cancer patients during the last year of life at Helsinki University Hospital : a historic cohort study ' , Acta Oncologica , vol. 58 , no. 12 , pp. 1699-1705 . https://doi.org/10.1080/0284186X.2019.1659512
Title: | Assessing the utilization of the decision to implement a palliative goal for the treatment of cancer patients during the last year of life at Helsinki University Hospital : a historic cohort study |
Author: | Hirvonen, Outi M.; Leskelä, Riikka-Leena; Gronholm, Lotta; Haltia, Olli; Rissanen, Antti; Tyynela-Korhonen, Kristiina; Rahko, Eeva K.; Lehto, Juho T.; Saarto, Tiina |
Contributor organization: | HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center Helsinki University Hospital Area Department of Oncology Clinicum Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care Doctoral Programme in Clinical Research |
Date: | 2019-12-02 |
Language: | eng |
Number of pages: | 7 |
Belongs to series: | Acta Oncologica |
ISSN: | 0284-186X |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/0284186X.2019.1659512 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/319729 |
Abstract: | Background: To avoid aggressive treatments at the end-of-life and to provide palliative care (PC), physicians need to terminate futile anti-cancer treatments and define the palliative goal of the treatment in time. This single center study assesses the practices used to make the decision that leads to treatment with a palliative goal, i.e., the PC decision and its effect on anti-cancer treatments at the end of life. Material and methods: Patients with a cancer diagnosis treated in tertiary hospital during 1st January 2013 - 31st December 2014 and deceased by the end of 2014 were identified in the hospital database (N = 2737). Of these patients, 992 were randomly selected for this study. The PC decision was screened from patient records, i.e., termination of cancer-specific treatments and a focus on symptom-centered PC. Results: The PC decision was defined in 82% of the patients during the last year of life (49% >30 days and 33% |
Subject: |
OF-LIFE
CHEMOTHERAPY USE END CARE RADIOTHERAPY TRENDS AGGRESSIVENESS HEAD INTENSITY 3122 Cancers |
Peer reviewed: | Yes |
Rights: | unspecified |
Usage restriction: | openAccess |
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