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- Title
Palliative Care for Patients Dying in the Intensive Care Unit with Chronic Lung Disease Compared with Metastatic Cancer.
- Authors
Brown, Crystal E.; Engelberg, Ruth A.; Nielsen, Elizabeth L.; Curtis, J. Randall
- Abstract
<bold>Rationale: </bold>Palliative care has been focused largely on patients with cancer, and yet patients with chronic lung diseases also have high morbidity and mortality. The majority of deaths in intensive care units (ICUs) follow decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatments, suggesting that palliative care is critically important in this setting.<bold>Objectives: </bold>We explored differences in receipt of elements of palliative care among patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who die in ICUs compared with patients with cancer.<bold>Methods: </bold>We identified patients with COPD, ILD, or metastatic cancer who died in the ICUs of 15 Seattle-area hospitals between 2003 and 2008. We used robust multivariable logistic and linear regression to compare differences in receipt of elements of palliative care and length of stay.<bold>Measurements and Main Results: </bold>Compared with patients with cancer, patients with COPD were more likely to receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation before death and patients with ILD were less likely to have documentation of pain assessment in the last day of life. Patients with ILD and COPD were less likely to have a do-not-resuscitate order in place at the time of death and less likely to have documentation of discussions about prognosis than patients with cancer. Patients with COPD had longer hospital lengths of stay, and patients with COPD and ILD had longer ICU lengths of stay.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Among patients who die in the ICU, patients with ILD and COPD receive fewer elements of palliative care and have longer lengths of stay than patients with cancer. These findings identify areas for improvement in caring for patients with chronic lung diseases. Clinical trial registered with www.clinicaltrials.gov (NCT00685893).
- Subjects
WASHINGTON (State); OBSTRUCTIVE lung disease treatment; COMPARATIVE studies; DO-not-resuscitate orders; LENGTH of stay in hospitals; INTENSIVE care units; INTERSTITIAL lung diseases; OBSTRUCTIVE lung diseases; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; MULTIVARIATE analysis; PALLIATIVE treatment; REGRESSION analysis; RESEARCH; RESEARCH funding; LOGISTIC regression analysis; EVALUATION research; SECONDARY primary cancer; TUMOR treatment; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2016, Vol 13, Issue 5, p684
- ISSN
2329-6933
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1513/AnnalsATS.201510-667OC