Publications by authors named "E Balladur"

DEVELOPMENT OF HOME-BASED PALLIATIVE CARE. Early palliative care improves both the quality and the length of a patient's life and the attending physician is a key player. The care offered is graduated and adapted to all living environments (home, EHPAD, nursing homes, etc.

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Objectives: To characterise trajectories associated with a new team organisation combining critical care and palliative care approaches at home.

Methods: We describe the pattern of an emergency response team 24/7 directed to patients with advanced illness presenting a distressing symptom at home, who wanted to stay at home and for whom hospitalisation was considered inappropriate by a shared medical decision-making process in an emergency situation. To assess preliminary impact of this Programme, we conducted a descriptive study on all consecutive patients receiving this intervention during the first year (between 6 September 2021 and 5 September 2022).

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Immunotherapy (IT) is a major therapeutic strategy for lymphoma, significantly improving patient prognosis. IT remains ineffective for a significant number of patients, however, and exposes them to specific toxicities. The identification predictive factors around efficacy and toxicity would allow better targeting of patients with a higher ratio of benefit to risk.

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Background: In the context of the pandemic Covid-19, the Hospitalization A Home (HAH) of the Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP) has implemented a new organisation with emergency interventions to meet the needs of residents in palliative care in nursing home. The objective of the study was to describe their clinical characteristics, the modalities of the intervention and their care pathways during the HAH intervention.

Methods: This is a descriptive study on the emergency intervention of the HAH in 74 nursing home in the area of Ile-de-France during one month (April 2020) with a sample of 132 residents.

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Background: The COVID-19 outbreak has posed considerable challenges to the health care system worldwide, especially for cancer treatment. We described the activity and the care organisation of the Hospitalisation At Home (HAH) structure during the pandemic for treating patients with anti-cancer injections.

Methods: We report the established organisation, the eligibility criteria, the patient characteristics, the treatment schemes and the stakeholders' role during two 5-week periods in 2020, before and during the French population's lockdown.

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