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Palliative Care in Patients With COVID-19: Analysis of Costs of Hospitalization in Wards and Intensive Care Units
Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo General Hospital
Summary
The confrontation of COVID-19 foreshadowed a serious crisis of scarce health resources worldwide. To assist in this confrontation, the Palliative Care Scientific Technical Core of the Clinical Hospital, School of Medicine, Sao Paulo University (USP) elaborated a Triage Protocol for Palliative Care (PALI-COVID Tool) and it was possible to categorize the patients in three groups, according to the risk of death and needs of Palliative Care (PC), through the clinical evaluation of the patient that also directed them to the hospitalization resource according to their need (ward x ICU).
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
200
Start Date
2023-10-01
Completion Date
2026-10-01
Last Updated
2023-06-15
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Analysis of costs with patient care during hospitalization
Analysis of direct costs with supplies, medications, diets, laboratory tests and imaging exams, and invasive procedures such as mechanical ventilation, dialysis, and the use of vasoactive drugs.-analysis of costs referring to working hours of physicians, nurses and physical therapists in each unit normalized for the same number of beds.- cost minimization and consequential cost analysis.