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Brytpunktssamtalets betydelse för den palliativa vården av äldre personer: En registerstudie baserad på data från Svenska palliativregistret
Dalarna University, School of Health and Welfare.
Dalarna University, School of Health and Welfare.
2023 (Swedish)Independent thesis Advanced level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
The end-of-life conversations significance for the palliative care of older persons (English)
Abstract [sv]

Bakgrund: Antalet äldre i befolkningen blir fler och behovet av palliativ vård ökar. Socialstyrelsen har tagit fram nationella kvalitetsindikatorer som speglar de viktigaste aspekterna av god palliativ vård, där brytpunktssamtal utgör en av dessa.

Syfte: Att undersöka om brytpunktsamtal med patient har någon betydelse för den palliativa vården personer 65 år eller äldre erhåller under sin sista levnadsvecka.

Metod: Kvantitativ icke-experimentell retrospektiv registerstudie med data från Svenska palliativregistret. Resultatet har analyserats med sambandstest och logistisk regressionsanalys.

Resultat: Signifikanta samband mellan brytpunktssamtal med patient och samtliga av de undersökta kvalitetsindikatorerna för god palliativ vård påvisades. De personer som erhållit brytpunktssamtal fick under sin sista levnadsvecka i högre grad munhälsan bedömd, smärtskattades i högre utsträckning samt hade i högre utsträckning smärtstillande opioid och ångestdämpande läkemedel ordinerade vid behov. Däremot avled fler personer med trycksår hos de som hade haft brytpunktssamtal än de som inte haft det.

Slutsats: Att signifikanta samband finns mellan brytpunktssamtal med patient och måluppfyllelsen av Socialstyrelsens indikatorer för god palliativ vård tyder på att brytpunktssamtalet har betydelse för kvaliteten på den palliativa vården som personer 65 år eller äldre erhåller.

Abstract [en]

Background: The number of older people in the population is growing and the need for palliative care is increasing. The National Board of Health and Welfare has developed national quality indicators to reflect upon the most important aspects of good palliative care, end-of-life (EOL) conversations is one of them.

Purpose: To examine whether EOL conversation with patients have any significance for the palliative care people 65 years or older receive during their last week of life.

Method: Quantitative non-experimental retrospective registry study with data from the Swedish Palliative Registry. The results have been analysed with correlation tests and logistic regression analysis.

Results: Significant relationships between EOL conversations with patients and the investigated quality indicators were demonstrated. During the last week of life, the people who received EOL conversations to higher extent had their oral health and their pain assessed, and they had opioid pain-relieving drugs and anti-anxiety drugs prescribed to a higher extent. However, more people died with pressure ulcers than in those who had had a EOL conversation than in those who had not.

Conclusion: The fact that there are significant connections between EOL conversation with the patient and the goal fulfilment of the indicators for good palliative care indicates that the EOL conversation is important for the quality of the palliative care people 65 year or older receive.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2023.
Keywords [en]
end-of-life conversation, palliative care, register study, older person
Keywords [sv]
brytpunktssamtal, palliativ vård, registerstudie, äldre personer
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Nursing
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-46705OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-46705DiVA, id: diva2:1787619
Subject / course
Caring Science/Nursing
Available from: 2023-08-14 Created: 2023-08-14 Last updated: 2023-08-14Bibliographically approved

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