Publications by authors named "Isaak Hatami"
Background: Palliative care was initially developed for patients with advanced cancer. Over the past years, however, palliative care has broadened its focus from terminal cancer patients to patients with other serious, life-limiting illnesses. Nevertheless, the identification of palliative care needs (PCNs) among hospital patients remains an insufficiently investigated topic of research.
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- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is making more people sick and is causing more deaths around the world.
- Many patients with severe COPD aren't getting the extra care they need to feel better.
- In a study of 39,849 patients, they found that only 9.1% of COPD patients received palliative care, but those who needed it stayed in the hospital longer and had a higher chance of dying during their stay.
Purpose: To analyze the need for palliative care in hospital patients who have cancer. Palliative care is an essential component of comprehensive cancer care and identification of palliative care needs (PCNs) of patients with cancer is a topic that has not been thoroughly studied.
Patients And Methods: Data were collected prospectively from inpatients of University Medical Center Freiburg in Freiburg, Germany, with 982 hospital beds included in the study.