Differences in palliative care needs between cancer patients and non-cancer patients at the start of specialized palliative care: A nationwide register-based study.

Background: Patients with non-cancer disease are less likely to receive specialized palliative care than cancer patients. To be able to provide the best specialized palliative care, it is important to understand palliative care needs of non-cancer patients and whether the type and level of needs differ from those of cancer patients. Large studies including both cancer and non-cancer patients, using validated needs-assessment-tools, are needed to understand differences in palliative care needs at admittance to specialized palliative care.

Palliative care need screening and specialised referrals fell during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide register-based study.

Objectives: Few studies have examined whether access to, and quality of, specialised palliative care changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study investigated changes in access to and quality of specialised palliative care during the pandemic in Denmark compared to previously.

Methods: An observational study using data from the Danish Palliative Care Database combined with other nationwide registries was conducted, including 69 696 patients referred to palliative care services in Denmark from 2018 to 2022.

Implementation of clinical guidelines in specialized palliative care-results from a national improvement project: A national register-based study.

Background: Knowledge about the process and the results of the implementation of clinical guidelines to improve palliative care is limited. A national project aimed at improving the quality of life of advanced cancer patients admitted to specialized palliative care services in Denmark by implementing clinical guidelines for the treatment of pain, dyspnea, constipation, and depression.

Aim: To investigate the degree of clinical guideline implementation by evaluating the proportion of patients treated according to guidelines among those who qualified (i.

Higher overall admittance of immigrants to specialised palliative care in Denmark: a nationwide register-based study of 99,624 patients with cancer.

Background: The population of immigrants in Europe is ageing. Accordingly, the number of immigrants with life-threatening diseases and need for specialised palliative care will increase. In Europe, immigrants' admittance to specialised palliative care is not well explored.

Higher Admittance to Specialized Palliative Care for Patients with High Education and Income: A Nationwide Register-Based Study.

While associations between socioeconomic position, that is, income and education and admittance to specialized palliative care (SPC) have been investigated previously, no prior national studies have examined admittance to all types of SPC, that is, hospital-based palliative care team/units and hospice. To investigate whether cancer patients' education and income were associated with admittance to SPC (hospital-based palliative care team/unit, hospice). Data sources were several nationwide registers.

Nausea at the start of specialized palliative care and change in nausea after the first weeks of palliative care were associated with cancer site, gender, and type of palliative care service-a nationwide study.

Purpose: Nausea is a common and distressful symptom among patients in palliative care, but little is known about possible socio-demographic and clinical patient characteristics associated with nausea at the start of palliative care and change after initiation of palliative care. The aim of this study was to investigate whether patient characteristics were associated with nausea at the start of palliative care and with change in nausea during the first weeks of palliative care, respectively.

Methods: Data was obtained from the nationwide Danish Palliative Care Database.

Regional and age differences in specialised palliative care for patients with pancreatic cancer.

Background: Despite national recommendations, disparities in specialised palliative care (SPC) admittance have been reported. The aims of this study were to characterize SPC admittance in patients with pancreatic cancer in relation to region of residence and age.

Method: The data sources were two nationwide databases: Danish Pancreatic Cancer Database and Danish Palliative Care Database.

Similar levels of symptoms and problems were found among patients referred to specialized palliative care by general practitioners and hospital physicians: A nationwide register-based study of 31,139 cancer patients.

Background: Previous studies suggest that the symptomatology threshold (i.e. the level and types of symptoms) for a referral to specialized palliative care might differ for doctors in different parts of the healthcare system; however, it has not yet been investigated.

Patient-reported symptoms and problems at admission to specialized palliative care improved survival prediction in 30,969 cancer patients: A nationwide register-based study.

Background: Large, nationally representative studies of the association between quality of life and survival time in cancer patients in specialized palliative care are missing.

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate whether symptoms/problems at admission to specialized palliative care were associated with survival and if the symptoms/problems may improve prediction of death within 1 week and 1 month, respectively.

Setting/participants: All cancer patients who had filled in the EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL at admission to specialized palliative care in Denmark in 2010-2017 were included through the Danish Palliative Care Database.

Cohabitation Status Influenced Admittance to Specialized Palliative Care for Cancer Patients: A Nationwide Study from the Danish Palliative Care Database.

Background: The utilization of the health care system varies in relation to cohabitation status, but conflicting results have been found in studies investigating the association in relation to specialized palliative care (SPC).

Objective: To investigate the association between cohabitation status and admittance to SPC; to establish whether this association differed between hospital-based palliative care team/units (mainly outpatient/home care) and hospice (mainly inpatient care).

Design: A nationwide study based on the Danish Palliative Care Database, which is linked with additional registers.

Is specialized palliative cancer care associated with use of antineoplastic treatment at the end of life? A population-based cohort study.

Background: The use of chemotherapy in the last 14 days of life should be as low as possible.

Aim: To study the factors related to the use of chemotherapy in the last 14 days of life and the factors related to concurrent antineoplastic treatment and specialized palliative care.

Design: This was a population-based cohort study.

Admittance to specialized palliative care (SPC) of patients with an assessed need: a study from the Danish palliative care database (DPD).

Background: Admittance to specialized palliative care (SPC) has been discussed in the literature, but previous studies examined exclusively those admitted, not those with an assessed need for SPC but not admitted. The aim was to investigate whether admittance to SPC for referred adult patients with cancer was related to sex, age, diagnosis, geographic region or referral unit.

Material And Methods: A register-based study with data from the Danish Palliative Care Database (DPD).

Is admittance to specialised palliative care among cancer patients related to sex, age and cancer diagnosis? A nation-wide study from the Danish Palliative Care Database (DPD).

Background: Specialised palliative care (SPC) takes place in specialised services for patients with complex symptoms and problems. Little is known about what determines the admission of patients to SPC and whether there are differences in relation to institution type. The aims of the study were to investigate whether cancer patients' admittance to SPC in Denmark varied in relation to sex, age and diagnosis, and whether the patterns differed by type of institution (hospital-based palliative care team/unit, hospice, or both).

Danish Palliative Care Database.

Aims: The aim of the Danish Palliative Care Database (DPD) is to monitor, evaluate, and improve the clinical quality of specialized palliative care (SPC) (ie, the activity of hospital-based palliative care teams/departments and hospices) in Denmark.

Study Population: The study population is all patients in Denmark referred to and/or in contact with SPC after January 1, 2010.

Main Variables: The main variables in DPD are data about referral for patients admitted and not admitted to SPC, type of the first SPC contact, clinical and sociodemographic factors, multidisciplinary conference, and the patient-reported European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionaire-Core-15-Palliative Care questionnaire, assessing health-related quality of life.