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<a href="http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jpm.2017.0038" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jpm.2017.0038</a>
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Pediatric Palliative Care: A Five-Year Retrospective Chart Review Study
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Journal Of Palliative Medicine
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2017
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Child; Life Limiting; Life Threatening; Palliative Care; Patient Survival; Pediatric
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Thrane SE; Maurer SH; Cohen SM; May C; Sereika SM
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BACKGROUND: More children are living with serious illness. However, survival and complexity of illnesses have not been described. OBJECTIVE: To describe types of illnesses, timing of referral, and time to death following referral to palliative care; to examine the associations between demographics and clinical characteristics and patient survival; and to examine whether average daily pain decreases after referral. DESIGN: Retrospective chart review of all children ages 2-16 years referred to palliative care at one large children's hospital during the five-year study period from January 1, 2009, through December 31, 2013. MEASUREMENTS: The primary outcome was patient survival and the main independent predictor was type of illness. Kaplan-Meier estimation was used to estimate patient survival time following referral, Cox proportional hazards regression was used to build predictive models based on gender, age, race, religion, and types of illnesses, and paired t-test compared the assessment of pain before and after referral. RESULTS: The cohort consisted of 256 children. Survival experience did not differ significantly based on gender, age, race, or religion (p ≥ 0.05); however, survival did vary based on referring diagnosis (χ2 = 40.3, df = 4, p < 0.001), particularly cancer. Forty-eight children with three days of pain assessments pre- and postreferral had significantly decreased pain postreferral (t(47) = 1.816, p < 0.05 one tailed), supporting our hypothesis. DISCUSSION: Results provide important information on the complexity of disease processes for children referred to palliative care, types of illnesses referred, survival, and pain levels. Results reflect earlier referral to palliative care for most children and highlight the medical complexity especially for children with congenital and genetic diagnoses.
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<a href="https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2017.0038" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">10.1089/jpm.2017.0038</a>
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2017
August 2017 List
Child
Cohen SM
Journal of Palliative Medicine
Life Limiting
Life Threatening
Maurer SH
May C
Palliative Care
Patient Survival
Pediatric
Sereika SM
Thrane SE