Question · asked by 1 review
Hospital‐based specialist palliative care vs usual care: Achieving patient preferred place of death (measured by number of patients with home death)
- Population
- adults with advanced illness and their unpaid caregivers/families
- Intervention
- Hospital‐based specialist palliative care
- Comparison
- usual care
- Outcome
- Achieving patient preferred place of death (measured by number of patients with home death)
Hospital‐based specialist palliative care may leads to higher achieving patient preferred place of death (measured by number of… compared with usual care (low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Hospital‐based specialist palliative care vs usual care Achieving patient preferred place of death (measured by number of patients with home death) · adults with advanced illness and their unpaid caregivers/families Hospital‐based specialist palliative care may leads to higher achieving patient preferred place of death (measured by number of… compared with usual care (low certainty). The effectiveness and cost‐effectiveness of hospital‐based specialist palliative care for adults with… (2020) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | OR 1.63 | 7 studies · 861 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The effectiveness and cost‐effectiveness of hospital‐based specialist palliative care for adults with advanced illness and their caregivers 2020 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | Not extracted | Not assessed |
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