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Implementation of a hospital-based home palliative care at regional level : a quantitative study of the Ospedalizzazione Domiciliare Cure Palliative Oncologiche program in Lombardy

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Masella, Cristina, Garavaglia, G., Borghi, G., Castelli, A., Radaelli, Giovanni and Peruselli, C. (2015) Implementation of a hospital-based home palliative care at regional level : a quantitative study of the Ospedalizzazione Domiciliare Cure Palliative Oncologiche program in Lombardy. Palliative Medicine, 29 (3). pp. 241-248. doi:10.1177/0269216314558156

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Abstract

Background: Home Palliative Care services can overcome trends of institutionalized dying and support higher rates of death at home.
Home Palliative Care services rarely scale-up into regional health planning. This generates unwarranted variability in service provision and outcomes across patients. Lombardy Region sponsored a Hospital-Based Home Palliative Care program, which implemented a common service to oncological patients in the territory, with the purpose to align hospitals toward a target of 65% deaths at home.
Aim: Our work assesses service characteristics and outcomes achieved by the regional program from 2009 to 2011.
Design and setting: Descriptive analysis from an institutional database of service characteristics, regional expenditure, and outcomes (temporary hospitalization and patient discharge) representing 11,841 patients served by 24 providers in the period 2009–2011.
Results: Targets of 65% deaths at home were achieved across the Region, with temporary re-hospitalization below 4.4%. The
average pathway length stood above 1month; intensity of care stood above ministerial and regional standards, with most home visits performed by nurses and physicians.
Conclusions: The implementation of the regional program revealed three strengths (prompt identification and enrollment of eligible
patients, and quantity of home visits) and two weaknesses (limited enrollment from general practitioners and multi-disciplinarity). This highlights opportunities for policy-makers to invest on regional protocols of Hospital-Based Home Palliative Care to reduce trends of institutionalized dying and align providers to homogeneous results

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Management
Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Journal or Publication Title: Palliative Medicine
Publisher: Sage
ISSN: 0269-2163
Official Date: March 2015
Dates:
DateEvent
March 2015Published
18 December 2014Available
Volume: 29
Number: 3
Page Range: pp. 241-248
DOI: 10.1177/0269216314558156
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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