Access to Palliative Care for Patients Undergoing Mechanical Ventilation With Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis in the United States

Abstract

The utilization of PC in patients with IPF who undergo MV has increased dramatically between 2006 and 2012.

Barriers to specialist palliative care in interstitial lung disease: a systematic review

“…However, only one of those studies reported the validity of those database records 11. Three studies did not report the prevalence of any comorbidities,11 27 28 and one study reported the prevalence of cancer but no other comorbidities 29. Five studies involved data from deceased patients with IPF or ILD.…”

A narrative literature review of palliative care regarding patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

“…Characteristics of the existing studies are summarized in Table . Countries where the studies were conducted were the UK, (Bajwah et al., , ; Duck et al., ; Sampson, Gill, Harrison, Nelson, & Byrne, ; Sharp et al., ), the USA (Liang et al., ; Lindell, Kavalieratos, Gibson, Tycon, & Rosenzweig, ; Lindell et al., , ; Rush, Berger, & Celi, ; Swetz, Carey, & Bundrick, ), Canada (Kalluri, Claveria, Haggag, & Richman‐Eisenstat, ; Kalluri et al., , ; Periyakoil, Skultety, & Sheikh, ), Japan (Arita et al., ), Finland (Rajala et al., ), Denmark (Overgaard et al., ) and Sweden (Ahmadi et al., ). The combined 19 studies comprised 1708 patients and 74 care partners.…”

“…The age range was between 52 and 78 years. The environments where patients received palliative care were home care (Arita et al., ; Bajwah et al., ; Duck et al., ; Kalluri et al., ; Lindell et al., , ; Overgaard et al., ; Periyakoil et al., ; Rajala et al., ; Sampson et al., ; Sharp et al., ; Swetz et al., ), inpatient ward (Arita et al., ; Rush et al., ), intensive care unit (Rajala et al., ), hospice care (Liang et al., ; Lindell et al., ) and outpatient respiratory centres (Ahmadi et al., ; Bajwah et al., ).…”

“…Retrospective studies were nine (Ahmadi et al., ; Arita et al., ; Kalluri et al., , ; Liang et al., ; Lindell et al., Rajala et al., ; Rush et al., ; Sharp et al., ). Ahmadi et al.…”

“…Rush et al. () reviewed the hospital admissions of patients with IPF undergoing mechanical ventilation between 2006 and 2012 and their use of palliative care. There were 408 patients (12.9%) who encountered palliative care.…”