The integrated care service: Impact of a multidisciplinary supportive care service for medical oncology patients in a NCI-designated cancer center.

Authors

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Finly Zachariah

City of Hope, Duarte, CA

Finly Zachariah, Denise Morse, Lucia Kinsey, Marianna Koczywas, Ravi Salgia, Sara Caiazza, Austin Thornhill, Matthew J. Loscalzo, Natalie Schnaitmann, Terry Irish, Jill Prudhomme-Hunter, Dung Banh, Stefanie Mooney, Chandana Banerjee, Purvi Patel, Sorin Buga, Susan Brown, Brenda Thomson, Vijay Trisal, William Dale

Organizations

City of Hope, Duarte, CA, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope, Duarte, CA, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA, CIY, Chicago, IL

Research Funding

Other

Background: Palliative care (PC) has shown benefits to inpatient length of stay (LOS), symptom burden reduction, utilization decrease, and time on hospice. It has shown less impact on the rate of hospice referrals. We assessed the impact of an integrated care model on these outcomes. Methods: From Jan-July, 2018, the Department of Supportive Care Medicine collaborated with medical oncology (med onc), nursing and administration to create the Integrated Care Service (ICS). Multi-disciplinary rounds include med onc, supportive care (PC, social work, spiritual care, psychiatry, psychology, hospice liaison), nursing, case management, nutrition, and physical and occupational therapy. The admission criteria include: 1) Later-stage disease; 2) Non-curative intent therapy; 3) High distress burden; and 4) Poor prognosis. The ICS was designed to have geographic co-location, morning PC and med onc rounds, multidisciplinary rounds, and post-acute management. The ICS was compared with other med onc patients (non-ICS) and Mantel-Haenszel Chi-Square statistical significance (p<0.05) was calculated using Epi Info StatCalc. Results: In 6 months, 190 med onc patients (pts) were admitted to ICS versus 537 non-ICS pts. Compared with non-ICS, the ICS pts had a higher Case Mix Index (1.81 vs. 1.56) and metastatic disease incidence (95% vs. 78%, p=0.008). Discharge to hospice was higher from ICS versus non-ICS (23% vs. 7%, p=<0.001), and average time on hospice increased from 9 to 15 days. No chemotherapy was given in the last two weeks of life to any pts on ICS (0 vs. 6 non-ICS pts). Length of stay (LOS) was higher on ICS as compared to non-ICS (8.45 vs. 5.26 days) and readmission rates were similar (12% vs. 13%). Conclusions: For medical oncology pts in a comprehensive cancer center, the ICS, an integrated, multidisciplinary supportive care service, significantly improved discharge rates to hospice, increased LOS on hospice by almost a week, avoided patients receiving chemotherapy, and maintained similar readmission rates. LOS was higher for complex ICS patients as compared to non-ICS. Based on this pilot, the ICS is planning for expansion to include hematology and surgical services.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2018 Palliative and Supportive Care in Oncology Symposium

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Poster Session A: Communication and Shared Decision Making; Integration and Delivery of Palliative and Supportive Care; and Psychosocial and Spiritual/Cultural Assessment and Management

Track

Integration and Delivery of Palliative and Supportive Care,Communication and Shared Decision Making,Psychosocial and Spiritual/Cultural Assessment and Management

Sub Track

Integration and Delivery of Palliative and Supportive Care

Citation

J Clin Oncol 36, 2018 (suppl 34; abstr 134)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2018.36.34_suppl.134

Abstract #

134

Poster Bd #

F6

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