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The confrontation of COVID-19 foreshadowed a serious crisis of scarce health resources worldwide. To assist in this confrontation, the Palliative Care Scientific Technical Core of the Clinical Hospital, School of Medicine, Sao Paulo University (USP) elaborated a Triage Protocol for Palliative Care (PALI-COVID Tool) and it was possible to categorize the patients in three groups, according to the risk of death and needs of Palliative Care (PC), through the clinical evaluation of the patient that also directed them to the hospitalization resource according to their need (ward x ICU).
The patients grouped as with higher risk of death and PC needs (green group) by PALI-COVID Tool were those with a profile of end-of-life, signs of clinical deterioration and risk of death on admission and thus indicated for admission to the COVID-19 Palliative Care Inpatient Unit, however some were admitted to the ICU. Objective: to analyze the direct costs of hospitalization of COVID-19 Palliative Care patients in Palliative Care Inpatient Unit and ICU screened as green group by the COVID-19 Screening Protocol developed in the institution. Methods: observational, cross-sectional and retrospective study of the service database of patients over 18 years of age screened as the green group (PALI-COVID). The variables to be investigated are related to sociodemographic and clinical data, length of stay and hospitalization scenarios, time to call for PC, outcome and costs.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| PC - end-stage disease criteria and high risk of death from the disease prior to COVID-19 | Patients with severe forms of COVID-19 (RT-PCR+) admitted to a high-complexity hospital. Of these, patients with end-stage disease criteria and high risk of death from the disease prior to COVID-19 were admitted, at clinical criteria, to palliative care unit. If there are patients who received both types of treatment, this group will also be analyzed. |
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| ICU - end-stage disease criteria and high risk of death from the disease prior to COVID-19 | Patients with severe forms of COVID-19 (RT-PCR+) admitted to a high-complexity hospital. Of these, patients with end-stage disease criteria and high risk of death from the disease prior to COVID-19 were admitted, at clinical criteria, to the ICU. If there are patients who received both types of treatment, this group will also be analyzed. |
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| PC & ICU - end-stage disease criteria and high risk of death from the disease prior to COVID-19 | Patients with severe forms of COVID-19 (RT-PCR+) admitted to a high-complexity hospital. Of these, patients with end-stage disease criteria and high risk of death from the disease prior to COVID-19 were admitted, at clinical criteria, to the ICU and palliative care unit. If there are patients who received both types of treatment, this group will also be analyzed. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Analysis of costs with patient care during hospitalization | Other | Analysis of direct costs with supplies, medications, diets, laboratory tests and imaging exams, and invasive procedures such as mechanical ventilation, dialysis, and the use of vasoactive drugs.-analysis of costs referring to working hours of physicians, nurses and physical therapists in each unit normalized for the same number of beds.- cost minimization and consequential cost analysis. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Direct costs (supplies) | costs related to supplies, medications, diets, laboratory tests, imaging exams, and invasive procedures (such as mechanical ventilation, dialysis, and the use of vasoactive drugs). The costs will be calculate for the three groups and compared between them. | Hospitalizations between April 8th to July 31th, 2020 |
| Direct costs (working hours) | costs referring to working hours of health professionals (physicians, nurses and physical therapists) in each unit normalized for the same number of beds. The costs will be calculate for the three groups and compared between them. | Hospitalizations between April 8th to July 31th, 2020 |
| Cost minimization, and consequential cost analysis | all the costs will be compared between them to do a cost-effectiveness analysis as the death rate will be probabily similar in the three groups. | Hospitalizations between April 8th to July 31th, 2020 |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Sociodemographic profile | age and sex to identify and analyze the profile of the patients included in the study. | Hospitalizations between April 8th to July 31th, 2020 |
| Clinical profile | diagnosis, underlying disease, comorbidities to identify and analyze the profile of the patients included in the study. |
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A screening protocol was created by us for stratification of patients admitted due to risk of death and PC needs - the PALICOVID. Patients classified by PALICOVID in the most severe group (terminal illness and clinical criteria of high risk of death prior to COVID-19) were referred to the PC Inpatient Unit. These patients were admitted, at the physician's discretion, in the PC unit or ICU. The mortality of patients in both groups was similar. Thus, the characterization of the sample according to demographic, clinical data, and comparative analysis of direct and indirect costs during hospitalization between the subgroups (PC, ICU and PC & ICU ) will be performed.
| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Maria DC Otero Rodriguez, BSc | Contact | + 55 11 2661-2407 | maria.rodriguez@hc.fm.usp.br | |
| Ednalda M Franck, RN, MSc | Contact | + 55 11 99814-6580 | ednalda.franck@hc.fm.usp.br |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Ricardo T de Carvalho, MD, PhD | University of Sao Paulo General Hospital | Principal Investigator |
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| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| Background | Anagusko SS, Rosa IB, Angelo MFF. Fundamentos dos Cuidados Paliativos aplicados à pandemia. In: Daniel Battacini Dei Santi, Luciana Suely Barros Cavalcante, Ednalda Maria Franck,Ricardo Tavares de Carvalho. (Org.). Cuidados Paliativos na Prática Clínica em Tempos de COVID-19. 1ed.Rio de Janeiro: Atheneu, 2021, v. 1, p. 5-15. | ||
| 35662009 | Background | Carvalho RT, Crispim DH, Franck EM, Dei Santi DB, Anagusko SS, Fukuda MV, Cavalcante LSB, Jales SMDCP, Queiroz MEG, Bonfa ESDO. Palliative care in the COVID-19 pandemic: Strategy of HCFMUSP. Clinics (Sao Paulo). 2022 Jan-Dec;77:100050. doi: 10.1016/j.clinsp.2022.100050. Epub 2022 May 17. No abstract available. | |
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| ID | Term |
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| D000086382 | COVID-19 |
| ID | Term |
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| D011024 | Pneumonia, Viral |
| D011014 | Pneumonia |
| D012141 | Respiratory Tract Infections |
| D007239 | Infections |
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| Hospitalizations between April 8th to July 31th, 2020 |
| Length of stay and inpatient settings | length of stay at Palliative Care unit (PC), ICU and PC & ICU to identify and analyze the profile of the patients included in the study and analyze the costs. | Hospitalizations between April 8th to July 31th, 2020 |
| Time to call Palliative Care group | admission to the institution, date of call of PC, first assessment of PC, indication of transfer to a COVID-19 PC unit, and date of transfer to PC unit to identify and analyze the time it took for staff to recognize the need for CP for the patients that has repercussions on the cost of hospitalization. | Hospitalizations between April 8th to July 31th, 2020 |
| Life-sustaining procedures | such as mechanical ventilation, dialysis, and the use of vasoactive drugs to identify and analyze the use of life-sustaining procedures in the study population and analyze the costs. | Hospitalizations between April 8th to July 31th, 2020 |
| Inpatient daily rates | rates for Palliative Care unit (PC), ICU and PC & ICU to analyze the costs. | Hospitalizations between April 8th to July 31th, 2020 |
| Outcome of hospitalization | hospital discharge, transference, and death to identify and analyze the profile of the patients included in the study and to make a cost-effectiveness analysis with the all costs that will be analyzed. | Hospitalizations between April 8th to July 31th, 2020 |
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| Background | Franck EM, Jales SMCP, Dei Santi DB, Cavalcante LSB, Silva MLF. A equipe multiprofissional na pandemia: novas formas de atuação, antigos desafios. In: Daniel Battacini Dei Santi, Luciana Suely Barros Cavalcante, Ednalda Maria Franck, Ricardo Tavares de Carvalho. (Org.). Cuidados Paliativos na Prática Clínica em Tempos de COVID-19. 1ed.Rio de Janeiro: Atheneu, 2021, v. 1, p. 31-44. |
| 29710177 | Background | May P, Normand C, Cassel JB, Del Fabbro E, Fine RL, Menz R, Morrison CA, Penrod JD, Robinson C, Morrison RS. Economics of Palliative Care for Hospitalized Adults With Serious Illness: A Meta-analysis. JAMA Intern Med. 2018 Jun 1;178(6):820-829. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.0750. |
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| D014777 |
| Virus Diseases |
| D018352 | Coronavirus Infections |
| D003333 | Coronaviridae Infections |
| D030341 | Nidovirales Infections |
| D012327 | RNA Virus Infections |
| D008171 | Lung Diseases |
| D012140 | Respiratory Tract Diseases |