[Does the Relationship between Home and Palliative Care Wards Change-The Influence of the Revision of Medical Compensation].

Home care and at-home-based palliative care for cancer patients are being improved bythrough a basic law on cancer control and subsequent institutional reforms in 2007. However, in the revision of the medical treatment fee in 2018, it is a big feature that the facilitystandard for the waiting days and the home return rate was built in the palliative care ward. The number of inpatients in our palliative care department was 3,835 in the 5 years from 2013 to 2018.

[Examination of Patients That Died within 48 Hours after Urgent Hospitalization].

We offer inpatient support for end-stage cancer patients, not only in palliative care units, but also in general medical and long-term care units. We also provide outpatient palliative care and offer emergent backup for the regional home care clinics. From January 2014 to December 2016, 1,832 patients were hospitalized, and among them, 983 patients visited our hospital on an emergency basis.

The relative trending accuracy of noninvasive continuous hemoglobin monitoring during hemodialysis in critically ill patients.

The pulse CO-Oximeter (Radical-7; Masimo Corp., Irvine, CA) is a multi-wavelength spectrophotometric method for noninvasive continuous monitoring of hemoglobin (SpHb). Because evaluating the relative change in blood volume (ΔBV) is crucial to avoid hypovolemia and hypotension during hemodialysis, it would be of great clinical benefit if ΔBV could be estimated by measurement of SpHb during hemodialysis.