Assistive technology in palliative medicine: equipment needs.

IF 2 4区医学 Q3 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI:10.1136/spcare-2022-003723

Renae Kelly, Bridget Manning, Kieran Broome

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Abstract

Objectives: Most people prefer to die at home. Timely and appropriate provision of assistive technology can support people to remain at home in the palliative phase. A state-wide palliative care equipment programme (PCEP) was established in Queensland, Australia, to support coordinated assistive technology provision. The objective of this study was to identify population-wide palliative care equipment needs and their relationship to primary diagnostic categories.

Method: A retrospective, cross-sectional analysis of equipment provided over a 19-month period was conducted. This included types of equipment provided and characteristics of the participants such as rurality, age and diagnostic category.

Results: There were 13 764 approved equipment requests, with a median time between equipment application and death being around 35 days. There were significant differences in the types of equipment typically required across diagnostic categories.

Conclusion: The findings from the study can provide a benchmark for the development of population-wide PCEPs. For practitioners who are new to palliative care, typical trajectories of equipment needs by diagnostic group can help guide equipment planning.

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姑息医学中的辅助技术：设备需求。

目的：大多数人都希望在家中去世。及时、适当地提供辅助技术可以帮助人们在姑息治疗阶段留在家中。澳大利亚昆士兰州制定了一项全州姑息关怀设备计划 (PCEP)，以支持协调辅助技术的提供。本研究的目的是确定整个人群对姑息关怀设备的需求及其与主要诊断类别之间的关系：方法：对 19 个月内提供的设备进行了回顾性横截面分析。方法：对 19 个月内所提供的设备进行了回顾性横断面分析，其中包括所提供设备的类型以及参与者的特征，如乡村、年龄和诊断类别：结果：共有 13 764 项设备申请获得批准，设备申请与死亡之间的中位时间约为 35 天。不同诊断类别通常所需的设备类型存在明显差异：研究结果可为制定全民 PCEP 提供基准。对于初涉姑息关怀的从业人员来说，按诊断类别划分的典型设备需求轨迹有助于指导设备规划。

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BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care Medicine-Medicine (miscellaneous)

CiteScore

4.60

自引率

7.40%

发文量

170

期刊介绍： Published quarterly in print and continuously online, BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care aims to connect many disciplines and specialties throughout the world by providing high quality, clinically relevant research, reviews, comment, information and news of international importance. We hold an inclusive view of supportive and palliative care research and we are able to call on expertise to critique the whole range of methodologies within the subject, including those working in transitional research, clinical trials, epidemiology, behavioural sciences, ethics and health service research. Articles with relevance to clinical practice and clinical service development will be considered for publication. In an international context, many different categories of clinician and healthcare workers do clinical work associated with palliative medicine, specialist or generalist palliative care, supportive care, psychosocial-oncology and end of life care. We wish to engage many specialties, not only those traditionally associated with supportive and palliative care. We hope to extend the readership to doctors, nurses, other healthcare workers and researchers in medical and surgical specialties, including but not limited to cardiology, gastroenterology, geriatrics, neurology, oncology, paediatrics, primary care, psychiatry, psychology, renal medicine, respiratory medicine.