Al-Kindi Sadeer G, Zeinah Ghaith F Abu, Hassan Azza Adel
Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar, Weill Cornell Medical College, Doha, Qatar.
Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2013 Feb;30(1):25-8. doi: 10.1177/1049909112439931. Epub 2012 Apr 10.
Palliative care is an essential part of in cancer treatment. Specialized palliative care units are starting to be incorporated into advanced healthcare systems. Qatar, a wealthy country in the Middle East, opened its first acute palliative care unit within a specialty cancer hospital in 2008. The objective of this study is to report and analyze the patterns of admissions and discharges of the patients referred to this unit over a period of three years. Our unit received 241 total admissions from July 2008 to June 2011. The age of the patients was 60.5 years, with 41.6% being local Qataris. Gastrointestinal malignancies formed the most common (34.5%). The average length of stay per admission at this unit was 30.5 days. The in-hospital mortality in our unit was 61.7%. The LOS and mortality rates were higher than those reported in the literature. We attributed that to the lack of other models of palliative care in the country and to cultural factors.
姑息治疗是癌症治疗的重要组成部分。专门的姑息治疗病房正开始被纳入先进的医疗体系。卡塔尔是中东的一个富裕国家，于2008年在一家专科癌症医院开设了首个急性姑息治疗病房。本研究的目的是报告并分析在三年时间里转诊至该病房的患者的入院和出院模式。我们的病房在2008年7月至2011年6月期间共接收了241例入院患者。患者年龄为60.5岁，其中41.6%为卡塔尔当地人。胃肠道恶性肿瘤最为常见（占34.5%）。该病房每次入院的平均住院时间为30.5天。我们病房的住院死亡率为61.7%。住院时间和死亡率高于文献报道的水平。我们将其归因于该国缺乏其他姑息治疗模式以及文化因素。
