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Palliativ cancervård är en betydande del av urologin. Studie av det sista levnadsåret för patienter som dog av urologisk cancer

Palliative cancer care is an important part of urology

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Author

  • Ola Bratt
  • Tove Nilsson
  • Karin Stenzelius

Summary, in English

A total of 330 in-patient episodes at the urology ward, with a mean duration of 9.8 days, were registered in a study of 100 patients who died from urological cancer. Twelve patients spent more than two months of their last year of life at the urology ward. As many as 82% of the admittances were on an emergency basis. A total of 101 operations were performed on 84 patients; 47 patients received palliative radiotherapy. This patient category needs a great deal of palliative care--at short notice--in order to get an optimal quality of life. Although many symptoms could have been alleviated outside hospital, the majority of patients needed specialised urological hospital care during their last year of life.

Publishing year

2002

Language

Swedish

Pages

765-770

Publication/Series

Läkartidningen

Volume

99

Issue

8

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Swedish Medical Association

Topic

  • Nursing
  • Urology and Nephrology

Keywords

  • Hospital
  • Urologic Neoplasms/nursing/surgery/*therapy
  • Urology
  • Middle Age
  • Terminal Care/methods
  • Male
  • Quality of Life
  • Sweden
  • Human
  • Oncology Service
  • Palliative Care/methods
  • Cause of Death
  • Aged

Status

Published

Research group

  • Urology

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0023-7205