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2018-10-19Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.25646/6548
Need for nursing care support in cancer patients: Registry-linkage study in Germany
dc.contributor.authorSpallek, Jacob
dc.contributor.authorBreckenkamp, Jürgen
dc.contributor.authorKraywinkel, Klaus
dc.contributor.authorSchwabe, Wolfgang
dc.contributor.authorKrieg, Volker
dc.contributor.authorGreiner, Wolfgang
dc.contributor.authorDamm, Oliver
dc.contributor.authorRazum, Oliver
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-17T10:04:22Z
dc.date.available2020-03-17T10:04:22Z
dc.date.issued2018-10-19none
dc.identifier.other10.4119/UNIBI/SEEJPH-2018-204
dc.identifier.urihttp://edoc.rki.de/176904/6517
dc.description.abstractAim: In Germany, very little is known about the need for assistance and nursing care support among cancer patients after hospitalization. The aim of this study was to describe nursing care support for cancer patients and to analyse whether these patients need more care assistance than other persons in need for care. Methods: This was a registry linkage study conducted in 2011. Cases were identified from the population-based cancer registry for the Muenster District in north-western Germany and in factually anonymised form linked by a semi-automatic probabilistic procedure (the standard procedure of the cancer registry) with medical examination records of patients applying for assistance and nursing care support from the regional statutory health insurance. The application records of 4,029 patients with colon, breast and prostate cancer were compared to a reference group of 13,104 non-cancer patients. Results: In only 41.7% of colon, 45.8% of breast and 37.4% of prostate cancer patients was the malignancy the main underlying diagnostic cause for the application of assistance and nursing care. These patients were on average younger (mean age 71.1 vs. 76.8 years) than the non-cancer reference group, required higher levels of support (79.5 vs. 58.1% “considerable” or higher level care need) and their applications were less likely to be rejected (odds ratios [ORs] 0.26, 0.28, and 0.31, respectively). By contrast, the proportion of successful applications and the level of support granted did not differ between multimorbid cancer patients with other main diagnoses as compared to non-cancer applicants. Conclusion: Patients with colon, breast or prostate cancer do not need per se more nursing care than non-cancer patients. Only if cancer is the main underlying diagnosis for nursing care support, higher levels of support are needed.eng
dc.language.isoengnone
dc.publisherRobert Koch-Institut
dc.rights(CC BY 3.0 DE) Namensnennung 3.0 Deutschlandger
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/
dc.subjectcancer patientseng
dc.subjectGermanyeng
dc.subjectnursing careeng
dc.subject.ddc610 Medizin und Gesundheitnone
dc.titleNeed for nursing care support in cancer patients: Registry-linkage study in Germanynone
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:kobv:0257-176904/6517-3
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25646/6548
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionnone
local.edoc.container-titleSouth Eastern European Journal of Public Healthnone
local.edoc.type-nameZeitschriftenartikel
local.edoc.container-typeperiodical
local.edoc.container-type-nameZeitschrift
local.edoc.container-urlhttp://seejph.uni-bielefeld.de/index.php/seejph/article/view/204none
local.edoc.container-publisher-nameJacobs Verlagnone
local.edoc.container-volume6none
local.edoc.container-year2018none
local.edoc.container-firstpage1none
local.edoc.container-lastpage10none
local.edoc.rki-departmentEpidemiologie und Gesundheitsmonitoringnone
dc.description.versionPeer Reviewednone

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