Clinical Characteristics and Discharge Assessment of Patients in a Recent Founded Palliative Care Unit
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 103
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Length of stay
研究概览
简要总结
The number of people having chronic diseases and the demand for palliative care has increased. The factors that have an impact on length of stay and discharge of patient who were admitted to palliative care center will be investigated.
详细描述
Adult patients admitted to the Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Teaching and Research Hospitals Palliative Care Unit between August 2018 and September 2020 and discharged to their home will be retrospectively evaluated.
Patient's age, gender, diagnosis, conditions/comorbidities, Karnofsky Performance Scale, discharge status (death, intensive care unit or at home), gastrostomy status, presence of tracheostomy and/or mechanical ventilation, nutritional status (total parenteral nutrition or enteral nutrition), pressure ulcers, the lowest and highest recorded hemoglobin concentration, white blood cell count and serum sodium concentration and the education level of the patient and the caregiver will be recorded. Patients will be grouped according to length of stay (LOS) as Group 1: discharged in equal or less than 21 days or Group 2: Prolonged discharged in longer than 21 days and analysed accordingly
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Other
- 时间视角
- Retrospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 100 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Adult patients admitted to the palliative care unit
排除标准
- •Patients not consenting to participate the study
结局指标
主要结局
Length of stay
时间窗: 24 hours after discharge
Length of stay will be determined after discharge
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Gulten Utebey
Dr
Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Education and Research Hospital