Abstract
The National Hospice and Palliative Registry is adatabase for palliative care facilities documenting acore data set for quality assurance and scientific evaluations. The study aims identifying differences between patients in palliative care units treated in Comprehensive Cancer Centers (CCC) or other hospitals (OH) focussing on sociodemographic and health/disease-related characteristics. Descriptive data analysis using IBM SPSS Statistics21 included patients treated from 2014 to 2018. Comparisons included sociodemographic data, diagnoses, ECOG status and treatment duration. 12,922 patient data were analyzed (CCC n = 4975/OH = 7947). In CCCs 79.8% had atumor diagnosis, in other hospitals 85.1%. The proportion of patients with ECOG4 was higher in CCCs than in other hospitals. The average length of stay in CCCs was 12.6days, in other hospitals 11.3days (p = 0.023). Data show differences between patients in palliative care implicating CCCs treating more complex palliative care patients than other hospitals.
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