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Inpatient palliative medicine is evidence based

P Good

Palliative Medicine, Brisbane

B Stafford

Specialist palliative care services have previously been studied to see whether their intervention is of benefit. However, there is a lack of data on whether interventions in individual palliative care units are evidence based. This study looked at 32 problems and 114 interventions over 1 month in January 2000 in an inpatient palliative care unit. These interventions were then researched to see if there had been trials showing their benefit. The results were then classified: 81% were evidence based (randomized controlled trials 48%, evidence from other trials 27%, convincing non-experimental evidence 6%). This compares favourably with studies performed in other areas of medicine.

Key Words: palliative care • evidence-based medicine • randomized controlled trials • clinical trials • human • clinical medicine

Palliative Medicine, Vol. 15, No. 6, 493-498 (2001)
DOI: 10.1191/026921601682553987
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