Determinants and Disparities of Neurosurgery Patients Refusing Inpatient Palliative Care After Provider Recommendation
Kyle M Rei, Vedhika Reddy, James Brazdzionis, Javed Siddiqi · 2023
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Kyle Rei and three co-authors asked which brain surgery patients say no to comfort care when their team offers it, in a study published in 2023. Earlier work mixed who receives the offer with who takes it. Their files screened 750 charts and kept 144 who had the offer on record. Three in four took the care; one in four said no.
Those who said no ran older and left sooner. Language, faith, and who held the proxy decision all tied to the choice. In joint analysis, old age, a non-English language, and an adult child or relative as proxy predicted a no. Faith raised the odds of a yes sevenfold. Race and ethnic roots did not predict the choice. The authors say the proxy choice is a lever teams miss.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Kyle M Rei, Vedhika Reddy, James Brazdzionis, Javed Siddiqi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |