Counting the use of specialized palliative care services
10.2512/jspm.7.374
- VernacularTitle:異なる算出方法による地域での専門緩和ケアサービス利用数の比較
- Author:
Tatsuya Morita
;
Nobuya Akizuki
;
Satoshi Suzuki
;
Hiroya Kinoshita
;
Yutaka Shirahige
;
Mitsunori Miyashita
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
specialized palliative care use;
palliative care teams;
palliative care units
- From:Palliative Care Research
2012;7(2):374-381
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
-
Abstract:
The primary aim of this study was to compare the ratios of specialized palliative care use to all cancer death using 2 methods: 1) total number of patients who received either of specialized palliative care services (unadjusted), and 2) number of patients after adjustment of potentially duplicated counts (adjusted). The research team obtained patient list from all specialized palliative care services, and counted the number of the patients who received any specialized palliative care services. The ratio of adjusted value to unadjusted value was 0.59, and had large region differences.Unadjusted values had, although overestimated, essentially similar trends in changes by year and differences in the regions. In conclusion, total number of patients who received either of specialized palliative care services could be simple and feasible indicator to roughly determine the activity of specialized palliative care services, but exact number of the patients who received specialized palliative care services should be determined on the basis of the patient lists without duplicated counts.
