[The outpatient palliative care conference aimed at "home palliative care shift"].
The association of doctors of Shizuoka City started a conference (S-NET) for cancer diagnosis and treatment in order to enhance a home palliative care for terminal cancer patients. At the same time, we introduced a system called "home palliative care shift" for inpatients. However, we felt that an intervention was necessary at the earliest stage of home palliative care due primarily to difficulties our home palliative team faced in its intervention for inpatients to "home palliative care shift." The outpatient palliative conference started to begin centering in the outpatient chemotherapy room because we thought it was important to have a seamless transition for terminal cancer patients. The primary contents of the conference were mostly centered on how to support the process of decision makings when the cancer treatment for a patient changes and how to choose a location for the patient to have a right medical treatment. The performance status (PS) when intervened was 2.3. The 5 patients who had died spent the final moment at their preferred medical treatment centers. Through the participation of multiple different back ground professionals at the time, the patients were treated well with better understandings. Furthermore, by sharing the patient's objective and information, we could enhance some relationship with the patient as well as going along with patient intensions what they want us to do for them at the final moment of their life. We thought that the system that verifies patient's intentions at the earliest stage of home palliative care was clearly needed most.
Shiraishi
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The Outpatient Chemotherapy Room, Shizuoka Red Cross Hospital.
D000368:Aged; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010166:Palliative Care; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011788:Quality of Life