| Autor: |
Rafael Tavares Jomar, Jéssica Thaís Nascimento Marques, Livia Costa de Oliveira, Gelcio Luiz Quintella Mendes, Daianny Arrais de Oliveira da Cunha, Raphael Mendonça Guimarães |
| Jazyk: |
English<br />Portuguese |
| Rok vydání: |
2024 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Einstein (São Paulo), Vol 22 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2317-6385 |
| DOI: |
10.31744/einstein_journal/2024ao0536 |
| Popis: |
ABSTRACT Objective: This study aimed at investigating the extent to which COVID-19-induced fatalities affect the duration of palliative care among patients with advanced cancer. Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted at the Palliative Care Unit of the Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Câncer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 1,104 advanced cancer patients who died under exclusive palliative care between March 11, 2020, and March 31, 2021. Wilcoxon rank-sum (Mann-Whitney U) and log-rank tests were performed to examine statistical differences between the medians of time, and the Kaplan-Meier estimator was used to graphically illustrate survival over time under exclusive palliative care contingent upon the underlying causes of death of the two experimental groups (cancer versus COVID-19). Results: A total of 133 (12.05%) patients succumbed to COVID-19. In both groups, the median time under exclusive palliative care was less than one month. The exclusive palliative care survival curves did not exhibit any statistically significant difference between the groups. Conclusion: Death due to COVID-19 did not modify the duration of exclusive palliative care among patients with advanced cancer. |
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