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| A specialized home care intervention improves survival among older post-surgical cancer patients | | Author(s) | Ruth McCorkle, Neville E Strumpf, Isaac F Nuamah |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 48, no 12, December 2000 |
| Pages | pp 1707-1713 |
| Keywords | Cancer ; Surgery ; Aftercare ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Changes in the healthcare system have resulted in shorter hospital stays, so that a patient can be discharged after an operation with continuing needs. Whether patients receive nursing care after leaving hospital can influence their recovery and survival, about which little information is available. This empirical study compares length of survival of older post-cancer patients receiving specialised home care provided by advanced practice nurses (APNs) with that of patients receiving usual follow-up care. During a 44-month follow-up period, 93 (24.8%) of 375 patients died; 41 (22%) had received the specialised home care, compared with 52 (28%) in the usual care group. Stage of disease at diagnosis differed between the two groups. Among early stage patients only, there was no difference in survival between the two groups; but for late stage patients, 2-year survival was 67% for home care compared with 40% for control cases. Additional research needs to test home care interventions which consider quality of life outcomes and their effects on survival. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010214216 B |
| Classmark | CK: LKA: LN: 3J: 7T |
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