Ricardo Pedrini Cruz, José Américo Serafim, Daniel Klug, Cledy Eliana Dos Santos
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Palliative care in the public health system: how do physicians deal with their patients at the end of life?
Background: Patients with cancer are referred late to palliative care services (PCS).
Aim: To analyse the time of referral to PCSs and the characteristics of patients that are referred.
Methods: A retrospective cohort. All patients admitted in a single tertiary care institution were evaluated by the PCSs from February 1, 2018 to January 31, 2019.
Findings: Among the 642 patients (557 patients with cancer) referred to PCSs: 7.47% died before evaluation, 13.08% died before transfer, and 15.6% died within 8 days after transfer. Out of all the patients with cancer included in the study, 85.28% had less than 2 months of PCS follow-up during their disease. In the last 30 days of life, 96.26% had were readmitted to hospital. A total of 94.09% of patients with cancer died in a hospital.
Conclusion: These findings suggest that patients with cancer in Brazil are not referred early enough to PCSs. Early integration with PCS must be sought to improve the accuracy of referral.
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