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TUESDAY, Dec. 18, 2018 (HealthDay News) — From 2005 to 2014, trends in palliative care use increased substantially among multiple sclerosis (MS) inpatients, according to a study published in the December issue of the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Yong-Jae Lee, Ph.D., from the Yonsei University College of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea, and colleagues used data from the 2005 to 2014 U.S. national inpatient sample to examine 10-year temporal trends of palliative care and independent associations of palliative care with hospital utilization and cost.<\/p>\n
The researchers found that from 2005 to 2014, the national trends in palliative care utilization in MS patients increased from 0.2 to 6.1 percent, with a single-year increase from 1.5 to 4.5 percent between 2010 and 2011. Among those with in-hospital death, there was a gradual increase in the proportion receiving palliative care from 2005 to 2014 (from 7.7 to 58.8 percent). There was a correlation for hospital palliative care with increased length of stay (\u03b2 = 0.444 days) and in-hospital death (odds ratio, 15.35) and with decreased hospital charges (\u03b2 = $2,261).<\/p>\n
“The temporal trends of palliative care use in MS inpatients gradually increased with an exponential increase between 2010 and 2011 during 2005-2014, which is mostly attributed to both the Affordable Care Act implementation and patients with higher risk of in-hospital death,” the authors write.<\/p>\n
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