PhD Scientific Days 2020

Pathology and Oncology II. Posters

Study on Attitudes of Hungarian Medical Oncologists Toward Hospice and Palliative Care, and the Effect on End of Life Therapy for Patients with Advanced Cancer

Előadó neve

Dr. Orsolya, Kordáné Horváth

Előadó munkahelye

National Institute of Oncology

Előadó telefonszáma

+36209834767

Előadó e-mail címe

orsihorvath@yahoo.com

Az előadás címe

Study on Attitudes of Hungarian Medical Oncologists Toward Hospice and Palliative Care, and the Effect on End of Life Therapy for Patients with Advanced Cancer

Szerző(k) neve és munkahelye

1 Dr. Katalin Hegedűs PhD / Semmelweis University, Faculty of Medicine
Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Budapest
2 Dr. Lajos Géczi / National Institute of Oncology, Budapest

Szekció

Pathology and Oncology II. Posters

Language of the presentation

Hungarian

Section, first choice

Health Sciences

Section, second choice

Pathology and Oncology

Összefoglaló szövege

Introduction: Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families through holistic treatment of pain, physical, psychosocial and spiritual problems. Integration of active oncological and palliative care is currently one of the biggest challenges in caring for patients with advanced cancer. The ideal solution would be if patients receiving oncotherapy would also receive matching hospice-palliative care at least in the last six months of their life.
Aim: Hospice palliative care is fully reimbursed by social security in Hungary, but only just a small part of the patients gets palliative care with adequate timing during their disease.
Methods: Our study analyses the knowledge and prevalence of ordering hospice-palliative care amongst doctors caring for advanced cancer patients in Hungary, using an internationally validated questionnaire: ESMO Survey of Medical Oncologist Attitudes to the Management of Patients with Advanced Cancer 2003. The survey tool addressed demographics (5 items), the palliative care units in the hospital, collaboration with supportive/palliative care clinicians (8 items), direct involvement in palliative and supportive care (7 items), and attitudes (24 items). There are also questions about the training in palliative care during and after the medical university. We ask about how many service providers do they know and how often do they refer their patients for hospice-palliative care. We are going to get all the professions dealing with end-stage cancer patients, the oncologists, the surgeons, the radiotherapists, and the primary care doctors. We are planning to get 800 surveys completed. We aim to study how increased knowledge about hospice and palliative care (training) and the accessibility of the caregivers (palliative mobile units, hospice units within the institute, etc.) affect the end of life therapies used for patients with advanced cancer. The ethics approval number is 45994-5/2019EKU.
Results: We can present the results of the pilot study. It will be completed by March 2020.
Conclusions: We would like to demonstrate, that if the doctors providing care for oncology patients were better trained in palliative care, fewer patients would be cured with aggressive chemotherapies in the last months and, more could receive palliative care in an earlier stage of their treatment.

Additional Information

Supervisor: Dr. Katalin Hegedűs PhD
hegedus.katalin@med.semmelweis-univ.hu

Bemutatás módja

Poszter

Kind

Szabad

Status

elfogadva

Accepted presentation method

poszter

Előadás fájl jóváhagyás

nem rendelkezett róla

Előadó

4789

Start

13:02

End

13:05

Authors (legacy)

1 Dr. Katalin Hegedűs PhD / Semmelweis University, Faculty of Medicine
Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Budapest
2 Dr. Lajos Géczi / National Institute of Oncology, Budapest