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A comparison of the use of sedatives in a hospital support team and in a hospice
Patrick Stone
Royal London Hospital
Clare Phillips
Royal London Hospital
Odette Spruyt
St Joseph's Hospice
Catherine Waight
St Joseph's Hospice, London
This study examines how frequently and for what indications sedatives are prescribed in a hospital support team and in a hospice. We also looked at the survival of sedated patients from the date of admission and from the start of sedation.
Overall 26% of patients were prescribed sedatives in order to sedate them (31 % at the hospice and 21 % at the hospital) and 43% of patients were given sedatives for symptom control (67% at the hospice and 21 % at the hospital). Sedated patients survived for a mean of 1.3 days after the start of sedation, and there was no detectable difference in survival from the date of admission between sedated and nonsedated patients.
Key Words: hospices • hypnotics and sedatives • palliative care • terminal care
Palliative Medicine, Vol. 11, No. 2,
140-144 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/026921639701100208
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