Reasons for unplanned hospitalisation in specialist community palliative care: a scoping review
Norah Elvidge, Hannah E Carter, Melanie Rolfe, Karen Smith, Jane L Phillips · 2025
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Norah Elvidge and co-authors review why people in community palliative care end up in hospital unplanned, in a 2025 scoping review. Many patients cared for at home by specialist teams still face emergency trips, and knowing why is the first step to stopping them.
The team screened more than two thousand studies and kept thirteen. Reasons fell into six groups, led by symptoms that could not be eased at home. Breathlessness topped the list, followed by pain, gut symptoms, and infection, then sudden events, signs of decline, and distress or exhaustion in patients and carers. A few studies compared specialist care with usual care and found mixed effects on hospital use.
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| CREATOR | Norah Elvidge, Hannah E Carter, Melanie Rolfe, Karen Smith, Jane L Phillips |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |