Prospective study of a proactive palliative care rounding intervention in a medical ICU.
Prospective study of a proactive palliative care rounding intervention in a medical ICU.
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DOI:
10.1007/s00134-015-4098-1
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发表时间:
2016-01
影响因子:
38.9
通讯作者:
Ehlenbach WJ
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作者:
Braus N;Campbell TC;Kwekkeboom KL;Ferguson S;Harvey C;Krupp AE;Lohmeier T;Repplinger MD;Westergaard RP;Jacobs EA;Roberts KF;Ehlenbach WJ
To evaluate the effects of a palliative care intervention on clinical and family outcomes, and palliative care processes. Prospective, before-and-after interventional study enrolling patients with high risk of mortality, morbidity, or unmet palliative care needs in a 24-bed academic intensive care unit (ICU). The intervention involved a palliative care clinician interacting with the ICU physicians on daily rounds for high-risk patients. 100 patients were enrolled in the usual care phase, and 103 patients were enrolled during the intervention phase. The adjusted likelihood of a family meeting in ICU was 63% higher (RR 1.63, 95% CI 1.14 to 2.07, p=0.01), and time to family meeting was 41% shorter (95% CI 52% to 28% shorter, p<0.001). Adjusted ICU length of stay (LOS) was not significantly different between the two groups (6% shorter, 95% CI 16% shorter to 4% longer, p=0.22). Among those who died in the hospital, ICU LOS was 19% shorter in the intervention (95% CI 33% to 1% shorter, p=0.043). Adjusted hospital LOS was 26% shorter (95% CI 31% to 20% shorter, p < 0.001) with the intervention. PTSD symptoms were present in 9.1% of family respondents during the intervention versus 20.7% prior to the intervention (p=0.09). Mortality, family depressive symptoms, family satisfaction and quality of death and dying did not significantly differ between groups. Proactive palliative care involvement on ICU rounds for high-risk patients was associated with more and earlier ICU family meetings and shorter hospital LOS. We did not identify differences in family satisfaction, family psychological symptoms, or family-rated quality of dying, but had limited power to detect such differences.