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CONTEXT:Palliative care interventions have shown promise in improving quality of life and reducing health-care utilization among patients with chronic organ failure. OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the effect of a palliative care intervention for adults with end-stage liver disease. METHODS:A randomized controlled trial of patients with end-stage liver disease admitted to the hepatology service at a tertiary referral center whose attending hepatologist indicated they would not be surprised if the patient died in the following year on a standardized questionnaire was performed. Control group patients received usual care. Intervention group patients received inpatient specialist palliative care consultations and outpatient phone follow-up by a palliative care nurse. The primary outcome was time until first readmission. Secondary outcomes included days alive outside the hospital, referral to hospice care, death, readmissions, patient quality of life, depression, anxiety, and quality of end-of-life care over 6 months. RESULTS:The trial stopped early because of difficulties in accruing patients. Of 293 eligible patients, only 63 patients were enrolled, 31 in the intervention group and 32 in the control group. This pace of enrollment was only 25% of what the study had planned, and so it was deemed infeasible to complete. Despite stopping early, intervention group patients had a lower hazard of readmission (hazard ratio: 0.36, 95% confidence interval: 0.16-0.83, P = 0.017) and greater odds of having more days alive outside the hospital than control group patients (odds ratio: 3.97, 95% confidence interval: 1.14-13.84, P = 0.030). No other statistically significant differences were observed. CONCLUSION:Logistical obstacles hindered completion of the trial as originally designed. Nevertheless, a preemptive palliative care intervention resulted in increased time to first readmission and more days alive outside the hospital in the first six months after study entry.
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J Pain Symptom Managejournal_title
Journal of pain and symptom managementauthors
Shinall MC Jr,Karlekar M,Martin S,Gatto CL,Misra S,Chung CY,Porayko MK,Scanga AE,Schneider NJ,Ely EW,Pulley JM,Jerome RN,Dear ML,Conway D,Buie R,Liu D,Lindsell CJ,Bernard GRdoi
10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.06.023subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-10-01 00:00:00pages
614-622.e3issue
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0885-3924issn
1873-6513pii
S0885-3924(19)30367-7journal_volume
58pub_type
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journal_title:Journal of pain and symptom management
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