Publications by authors named "Hanna Pihlaja"
Background: Patients with chronic nonmalignant pulmonary disease and lung cancer both need palliative care, but palliative care services may be better adjusted to serve cancer patients. We compared the timing and clinical practice of palliative care and acute hospital usage during the last year of life in patients with nonmalignant pulmonary disease or lung cancer.
Methods: This was a retrospective study of all patients in a palliative care phase (palliative goal of care) with nonmalignant pulmonary disease or lung cancer who were treated at Tampere University Hospital, Finland, during the years 2018-2020.
Background: Few patients with chronic nonmalignant pulmonary diseases receive specialist palliative care consultation, despite their high symptom burden in end of life.
Objectives: To study palliative care decision making, survival, and hospital resource usage in patients with nonmalignant pulmonary diseases with or without a specialist palliative care consultation.
Methods: A retrospective chart review of all patients with a chronic nonmalignant pulmonary disease and a palliative care decision (palliative goal of therapy), who were treated in Tampere University Hospital, Finland, between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2020.