Analysis of Patients Hospitalised in the Comprehensive Palliative Care Service-1-Year Experience

Palliative Care Service-1-Year Experience

Abstract

Aim: It was aimed to evaluate the patients who were admitted to SamsunTraining  Research Hospital (STRH), PCS since it was started to be admitted by family-medicine clinic.

Methods: Cross-sectional, retrospective study consisted of all PC-patients admitted to STRH-PCS between 01/12/2019-01/12/2020.  Gender, age, occupation, blood type, diagnosis, where we were consulted from, how many days of received, how many hospitalizations were made, number of deaths, reason for hospitalization, requests for imaging, specific interventional procedures etc. was collected with the help of automation-system and analyzed in SPSS.

Results: The mean age of the participants in the study was 76.3±12.9 years, and the female ratio was 51.3%. The majority of the people's blood groups were found to be A Rh+ with 36.9%. The average hospitalization period of the individuals was 12.0±10.4 days, and it was determined that the most hospitalizations were made in winter with 46.7%. While 62.8% of the individuals were discharged from the hospital, it was determined that 21.7% of them died. It was determined that nearly half of the patients were hospitalized due to nutritional deficiencies. The primary diagnosis distributions of the individuals Lung-cancer (15.8%), CVO (14.8%) and Alzheimer (14.1%),

Conclusion: More consultation was requested from the emergency department and intensive care departments, and patients who were asked to have direct radiography as an imaging need died more.