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The quality of end-of-life care for Danish cancer patients who have received non-specialized palliative care : a national survey using the Danish version of VOICES-SF. / Ross, Lone; Neergaard, Mette Asbjoern; Petersen, Morten Aagaard et al.
In: Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, Vol. 30, No. 11, 11.2022.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The quality of end-of-life care for Danish cancer patients who have received non-specialized palliative care
T2 - a national survey using the Danish version of VOICES-SF
AU - Ross, Lone
AU - Neergaard, Mette Asbjoern
AU - Petersen, Morten Aagaard
AU - Groenvold, Mogens
N1 - © 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2022/11
Y1 - 2022/11
N2 - PURPOSE: About half of Danish patients dying from cancer have never been in contact with specialized palliative care. Non-specialized palliative care in Denmark, i.e., somatic hospital departments, community nurses, and general practitioners, has rarely been described or evaluated. We aim to assess how non-specialized palliative care was evaluated by bereaved spouses, and to test whether distress when completing the questionnaire and ratings of aspects of end-of-life care was associated with satisfaction with place of death and overall quality of end-of-life care.METHODS: Bereaved spouses of 792 cancer patients who had received non-specialized palliative care were invited to answer the Views of Informal Carers-Evaluation of Services-Short Form (VOICES-SF) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) 3-9 months after the patient's death.RESULTS: A total of 280 (36%) of invited spouses participated. In the last 3 months of the patient's life, the quality of all services taken together was rated as good, excellent, or outstanding in 70% of the cases. Satisfaction was associated with respondent's current distress (p = 0.0004). Eighty percent of bereaved spouses believed that the patient had died in the right place. Satisfaction with place of death was associated with place of death (p = 0.012) and the respondent's current distress (p = 0.0016).CONCLUSION: Satisfaction with place of death and overall quality of services was generally high but was rated lower by spouses reporting higher levels of distress when completing the questionnaire. Distress should be taken into account whenever services are evaluated by bereaved relatives.
AB - PURPOSE: About half of Danish patients dying from cancer have never been in contact with specialized palliative care. Non-specialized palliative care in Denmark, i.e., somatic hospital departments, community nurses, and general practitioners, has rarely been described or evaluated. We aim to assess how non-specialized palliative care was evaluated by bereaved spouses, and to test whether distress when completing the questionnaire and ratings of aspects of end-of-life care was associated with satisfaction with place of death and overall quality of end-of-life care.METHODS: Bereaved spouses of 792 cancer patients who had received non-specialized palliative care were invited to answer the Views of Informal Carers-Evaluation of Services-Short Form (VOICES-SF) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) 3-9 months after the patient's death.RESULTS: A total of 280 (36%) of invited spouses participated. In the last 3 months of the patient's life, the quality of all services taken together was rated as good, excellent, or outstanding in 70% of the cases. Satisfaction was associated with respondent's current distress (p = 0.0004). Eighty percent of bereaved spouses believed that the patient had died in the right place. Satisfaction with place of death was associated with place of death (p = 0.012) and the respondent's current distress (p = 0.0016).CONCLUSION: Satisfaction with place of death and overall quality of services was generally high but was rated lower by spouses reporting higher levels of distress when completing the questionnaire. Distress should be taken into account whenever services are evaluated by bereaved relatives.
KW - Cancer
KW - End-of-life care
KW - Palliative care
KW - Place of death
KW - Satisfaction with care
KW - Spouses
U2 - 10.1007/s00520-022-07302-0
DO - 10.1007/s00520-022-07302-0
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 35982298
VL - 30
JO - Supportive Care in Cancer
JF - Supportive Care in Cancer
SN - 0941-4355
IS - 11
ER -