التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Presentation patterns and outcomes of patients with cancer accessing care in emergency departments in Victoria, Australia. |
| المؤلفون: |
Meer, Dania, Weiland, Tracey, Philip, Jennifer, Jelinek, George, Boughey, Mark, Knott, Jonathan, Marck, Claudia, Weil, Jennifer, Lane, Heather, Dowling, Anthony, Kelly, Anne-Maree, van der Meer, Dania M, Weiland, Tracey J, Jelinek, George A, Marck, Claudia H, Weil, Jennifer L, Lane, Heather P, Dowling, Anthony J |
| المصدر: |
Supportive Care in Cancer; Mar2016, Vol. 24 Issue 3, p1251-1260, 10p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
CANCER research, HOSPITAL emergency services, SYMPTOMS, HOSPITAL care, MORTALITY, TUMOR treatment, COMPARATIVE studies, LONGITUDINAL method, RESEARCH methodology, MEDICAL cooperation, RESEARCH, TUMORS, EVALUATION research, TREATMENT effectiveness, RETROSPECTIVE studies |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
VICTORIA |
| مستخلص: |
Purpose: People with cancer attend emergency departments (EDs) for many reasons. Improved understanding of the specific needs of these patients may assist in optimizing health service delivery. ED presentation and hospital utilization characteristics were explored for people with cancer and compared with those patients without cancer.Methods: This descriptive, retrospective, multicentre cohort study used hospital administrative data. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to summarise and compare ED presentation characteristics amongst cancer and non-cancer groups. Predictive analyses were used to identify ED presentation features predictive of hospital admission for cancer patients. Outcomes of interest were level of acuity, ED and inpatient length of stay, re-presentation rates and admission rates amongst cancer patients and non-cancer patients.Results: ED (529,377) presentations occurred over the 36 months, of which 2.4% (n = 12,489) were cancer-related. Compared with all other attendances, cancer-related attendances had a higher level of acuity, requiring longer management time and length of stay in ED. Re-presentation rates for people with cancer were nearly double those of others (64 vs 33%, p < 0.001), with twice the rate of hospital admission (90 vs 46%, p < 0.001), longer inpatient length of stay (5.6 vs 2.8 days, p < 0.001) and had higher inpatient mortality (7.9 vs 1.0%, p < 0.001). Acuity and arriving by ambulance were significant predictors of hospital admission, with cancer-related attendances having ten times the odds of admission compared to other attendances (OR = 10.4, 95% CI 9.8-11.1).Conclusions: ED presentations by people with cancer represent a more urgent, complex caseload frequently requiring hospital admission when compared to other presentations, suggesting that for optimal cancer care, close collaboration and integration of oncology, palliative care and emergency medicine providers are needed to improve pathways of care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| قاعدة البيانات: |
Complementary Index |
