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SAN DIEGO – and is more common among older children, female children, and those with government insurance or at a high risk of mortality. The findings come from a retrospective analysis of data from 52 hospitals, which included ICU admissions (except neonatal ICU) during 2007-2018.
The good news is that palliative care consultations have increased, with consultations in less than 1% of cases at the start of the study and rising quickly to more than 7% in 2018.
“In the adult world, palliative care has expanded in recent decades, and I think now that it’s coming to the pediatric world, it’ll just continue to go up,” said Siobhan O’Keefe, MD, in an interview. Dr. O’Keefe is with Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora. She presented the study at the Critical Care Congress sponsored by the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
More work needs to be done, she said. “We are not uniformly using palliative care for critically ill children in the U.S., and it varies across institutions. That’s probably not the ideal situation,” said Dr. O’Keefe. The study did not track palliative care versus the presence of board-certified palliative care physicians or palliative care fellowships, but she suspects they would correlate.
Dr. O’Keefe called for physicians to think beyond the patient, to family members and caregivers. “We need to focus on family outcomes, how they are taking care of children with moderate disability, and incorporate that into our outcomes,” she said. Previous research has shown family members to be at risk of anxiety, depression, unemployment, and financial distress.
The researchers analyzed data from 740,890 patients with 1,024,666 hospitalizations (82% had one hospitalization). They divided subjects into three cohorts, one of which was a category of patients with criteria for palliative care based on previous research (PC-ICU). The PC-ICU cohort included patients with an expected length of stay more than 2 weeks, patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), severe brain injuries, acute respiratory failure with serious comorbidity, hematologic or oncologic disease, metabolic disease, renal failure that required continuous renal replacement therapy, hepatic failure, or serious chromosomal abnormality. A second cohort included chronic complex conditions not found in the PC-ICU cohort (additional criteria), and a third cohort had no criteria for palliative care.
Thirty percent of hospitalizations met the PC-ICU cohort criteria, 40% met the additional cohort criteria, and 30% fell in the no criteria cohort. The PC-ICU group had the highest mortality, at 8.03%, compared with 1.08% in the additional criteria group and 0.34% in the no criteria group (P less than .00001).
Palliative care consultations occurred more frequently in 5-12 year olds (odds ratio 1.06; 95% confidence interval, 1.01-1.13) and in those aged 13 years or older (OR, 1.38; 95% CI, 1.3-1.46), in females (OR, 1.13; 95% CI, 1.06-1.15), and in patients with government insurance (OR, 1.23; 95% CI, 1.17-1.29). Compared with those in the no criteria cohort, PC-ICU patients were more likely to receive a palliative care consult (OR, 75.5; 95% CI, 60.4-94.3), as were those in the additional criteria group (OR, 19.1; 95% CI, 15.3-23.9).
Cross-institutional palliative care frequency varied widely among patients in the PC-ICU group, ranging from 0% to 44%. The frequency ranged from 0% to 12% across institutions for patients in the additional criteria group.
SOURCE: O’Keefe S et al. Critical Care Congress 2019, Abstract 418.
SAN DIEGO – and is more common among older children, female children, and those with government insurance or at a high risk of mortality. The findings come from a retrospective analysis of data from 52 hospitals, which included ICU admissions (except neonatal ICU) during 2007-2018.
The good news is that palliative care consultations have increased, with consultations in less than 1% of cases at the start of the study and rising quickly to more than 7% in 2018.
“In the adult world, palliative care has expanded in recent decades, and I think now that it’s coming to the pediatric world, it’ll just continue to go up,” said Siobhan O’Keefe, MD, in an interview. Dr. O’Keefe is with Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora. She presented the study at the Critical Care Congress sponsored by the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
More work needs to be done, she said. “We are not uniformly using palliative care for critically ill children in the U.S., and it varies across institutions. That’s probably not the ideal situation,” said Dr. O’Keefe. The study did not track palliative care versus the presence of board-certified palliative care physicians or palliative care fellowships, but she suspects they would correlate.
Dr. O’Keefe called for physicians to think beyond the patient, to family members and caregivers. “We need to focus on family outcomes, how they are taking care of children with moderate disability, and incorporate that into our outcomes,” she said. Previous research has shown family members to be at risk of anxiety, depression, unemployment, and financial distress.
The researchers analyzed data from 740,890 patients with 1,024,666 hospitalizations (82% had one hospitalization). They divided subjects into three cohorts, one of which was a category of patients with criteria for palliative care based on previous research (PC-ICU). The PC-ICU cohort included patients with an expected length of stay more than 2 weeks, patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), severe brain injuries, acute respiratory failure with serious comorbidity, hematologic or oncologic disease, metabolic disease, renal failure that required continuous renal replacement therapy, hepatic failure, or serious chromosomal abnormality. A second cohort included chronic complex conditions not found in the PC-ICU cohort (additional criteria), and a third cohort had no criteria for palliative care.
Thirty percent of hospitalizations met the PC-ICU cohort criteria, 40% met the additional cohort criteria, and 30% fell in the no criteria cohort. The PC-ICU group had the highest mortality, at 8.03%, compared with 1.08% in the additional criteria group and 0.34% in the no criteria group (P less than .00001).
Palliative care consultations occurred more frequently in 5-12 year olds (odds ratio 1.06; 95% confidence interval, 1.01-1.13) and in those aged 13 years or older (OR, 1.38; 95% CI, 1.3-1.46), in females (OR, 1.13; 95% CI, 1.06-1.15), and in patients with government insurance (OR, 1.23; 95% CI, 1.17-1.29). Compared with those in the no criteria cohort, PC-ICU patients were more likely to receive a palliative care consult (OR, 75.5; 95% CI, 60.4-94.3), as were those in the additional criteria group (OR, 19.1; 95% CI, 15.3-23.9).
Cross-institutional palliative care frequency varied widely among patients in the PC-ICU group, ranging from 0% to 44%. The frequency ranged from 0% to 12% across institutions for patients in the additional criteria group.
SOURCE: O’Keefe S et al. Critical Care Congress 2019, Abstract 418.
SAN DIEGO – and is more common among older children, female children, and those with government insurance or at a high risk of mortality. The findings come from a retrospective analysis of data from 52 hospitals, which included ICU admissions (except neonatal ICU) during 2007-2018.
The good news is that palliative care consultations have increased, with consultations in less than 1% of cases at the start of the study and rising quickly to more than 7% in 2018.
“In the adult world, palliative care has expanded in recent decades, and I think now that it’s coming to the pediatric world, it’ll just continue to go up,” said Siobhan O’Keefe, MD, in an interview. Dr. O’Keefe is with Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora. She presented the study at the Critical Care Congress sponsored by the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
More work needs to be done, she said. “We are not uniformly using palliative care for critically ill children in the U.S., and it varies across institutions. That’s probably not the ideal situation,” said Dr. O’Keefe. The study did not track palliative care versus the presence of board-certified palliative care physicians or palliative care fellowships, but she suspects they would correlate.
Dr. O’Keefe called for physicians to think beyond the patient, to family members and caregivers. “We need to focus on family outcomes, how they are taking care of children with moderate disability, and incorporate that into our outcomes,” she said. Previous research has shown family members to be at risk of anxiety, depression, unemployment, and financial distress.
The researchers analyzed data from 740,890 patients with 1,024,666 hospitalizations (82% had one hospitalization). They divided subjects into three cohorts, one of which was a category of patients with criteria for palliative care based on previous research (PC-ICU). The PC-ICU cohort included patients with an expected length of stay more than 2 weeks, patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), severe brain injuries, acute respiratory failure with serious comorbidity, hematologic or oncologic disease, metabolic disease, renal failure that required continuous renal replacement therapy, hepatic failure, or serious chromosomal abnormality. A second cohort included chronic complex conditions not found in the PC-ICU cohort (additional criteria), and a third cohort had no criteria for palliative care.
Thirty percent of hospitalizations met the PC-ICU cohort criteria, 40% met the additional cohort criteria, and 30% fell in the no criteria cohort. The PC-ICU group had the highest mortality, at 8.03%, compared with 1.08% in the additional criteria group and 0.34% in the no criteria group (P less than .00001).
Palliative care consultations occurred more frequently in 5-12 year olds (odds ratio 1.06; 95% confidence interval, 1.01-1.13) and in those aged 13 years or older (OR, 1.38; 95% CI, 1.3-1.46), in females (OR, 1.13; 95% CI, 1.06-1.15), and in patients with government insurance (OR, 1.23; 95% CI, 1.17-1.29). Compared with those in the no criteria cohort, PC-ICU patients were more likely to receive a palliative care consult (OR, 75.5; 95% CI, 60.4-94.3), as were those in the additional criteria group (OR, 19.1; 95% CI, 15.3-23.9).
Cross-institutional palliative care frequency varied widely among patients in the PC-ICU group, ranging from 0% to 44%. The frequency ranged from 0% to 12% across institutions for patients in the additional criteria group.
SOURCE: O’Keefe S et al. Critical Care Congress 2019, Abstract 418.
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