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Table 7 Descriptive, strategic and analytical studies on PC integration in Spain (n = 35)

From: Integrated palliative care in the Spanish context: a systematic review of the literature

Category

Reference

Date

Documents titles

Type

Disease

Design

Setting

Total Hawker Score(1)

Descriptive documents (n = 4)

Alberola et al. [26]

2001

Modelos de Cuidados Paliativos en pacientes con cáncer (Pallitave Care models in cancer patients)

Models

Cancer

Models description

General University Hospital of Valencia; Oncology Catalan Institute, Barcelona; University Hospital “Dr Negrín”, Las Palmas; Clinic University Hospital of Valladolid

10

Arrieta et al. [21]

2012

Cuidados paliativos. Proceso asistencial integrado Araba (Palliative Care. “Araba” Integrated assistential Process)

Models

Cancer and non-cancer

Model description

None

Not applicable

Pascual N. [27]

2011

Modelos de atención a pacientes oncológicos terminales en Andalucía: una mirada sociológica (Models of oncologic terminal patients attention in Andalucia)

Models

Cancer

Multimode: Quantitative and qualitative tools

None

28

Rubi et al. [25]

2005

Cuidados Paliativos en las enfermedades crónicas en fase avanzada. Situación actual y propuesta de organización asistencial (Palliative Care in advanced chronic respiratory disease. Status and assistential proposal for organisation)

Review and proposal

Advanced chronic respiratory disease

Narrative review

None

16

Strategic documents (n = 17)

Gómez-Batiste et al. [37]

2013

Identificación de personas con enfermedades crónicas avanzadas y neceisdad de cuidados paliativos en los servicios socio-sanitarios: herramienta NECPAL CCOMS-ICO© (Identification of people with chronic advanced diseases and need of palliative care in sociosanitary services: elaboration of the NECPAL CCOMS-ICO© tool)

Concrete situations

Advanced chronic diseases

Descriptive

None

15

Miguez C. [33]

2010

Guía formativa del residente de oncología radioterápica. (Training guideline for resident of radiotherapic oncology)

Concrete situations

Radiotherapic oncology

Not applicable

None

Not applicable

Castellanos et al. [35]

2007

Plan integral de atención sociosanitaria al deterioro cognitivo en Extremadura PIDEX (Integral plan of sociosanitary attention to cognitive impairment in Extremadura PIDEX)

Concrete situations

Cognitive impairment

Not applicable

None

Not applicable

Herrera et al. [54]

2006

Primer nivel asistencial en Cuidados paliativos: Evolución del contenido de la cartera de servicios de atención primaria y criterios de derivación al nivel de soporte.(Primary Palliative Care: Development of the contents of the primary care services portfolio and criteria for referral according to complexity)

Concrete situations

Cancer and non-cancer

Not applicable

None

19

Gómez-Batiste et al. [45]

2012

Proyecto de demonstración de la Organización Mundial de la Salud de Cataluña sobre implementación de cuidados paliativos: resultados cuantitativos y cualitativos en 20 años (The Catalonia World Health Organization demonstration project for palliative care implementation: quantitative and qualitative results at 20 years)

Assessment

Cancer and non-cancer diseases

Quantitative and qualitative

None

20

Gómez-Batiste et al.

2007

Proyecto de demonstración de la Organización Mundial de la Salud de Cataluña en 15 años (Catalonia WHO palliative care demonstration project at 15 Years. 2005)

Assessment

Cancer and non-cancer

Unclear

None

20

Gómez-Batiste et al. [39]

2006

Consumo de recursos y costes de los servicios de cuidados paliativos en España: un studio prospective multi-céntrico. (Resource consumption and costs of palliative care services in Spain: a multicenter prospective study)

Assessment

Cancer and non-cancer

Descriptive-observational, prospective, longitudinal Multicenter Study

None

22

Cía et al. [28]

2008

Plan andaluz de Cuidados Paliativos (Andalusian plan for palliative care)

Regional Plan

Cancer and non-cancer

Not applicable

None

Not applicable

Gago et al. [29]

2009

Estrategia de Cuidados Paliativos para Asturias (Palliative care strategy for Asturias)

Regional Plan

Cancer and non-cancer

Not applicable

None

Not applicable

Amorín et al. [30]

2009

Programa de Cuidados Paliativos de Aragón (Palliative care strategy for Aragón)

Regional Plan

Cancer and non-cancer

Not applicable

None

Not applicable

López et al. [31]

2010

Plan integral de Cuidados paliativos de la comunidad Valenciana (Palliative care integral plan for the Comunidad Valenciana)

Regional Plan

Cáncer and non-cancer

Not applicable

None

Not applicable

Unknown

Unknown

Programa Integral Atención Paliativa Cantabria (Palliative integral attention programme for Cantabria)

Regional Plan

Cáncer and non-cancer

Not applicable

None

Not applicable

Aguilera et al. [55]

2005

Plan integral de Cuidados Paliativos de la Comunidad de Madrid. 2005–2008 (Palliative Care integral plan for the Community of Madrid. 2005–2008)

Regional Plan

Cáncer and non-cancer

Not applicable

None

Not applicable

Fernández et al. [33]

2007

Plan Integral de Cuidados Paliativos de la Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia 2006–2009 (Palliative Care integral plan for the Community of Murcia. 2006–2009)

Regional Plan

Cáncer and non-cancer

Not applicable

None

Not applicable

García-Baquero et al. [14]

2010

Borrador del Plan estratégico de Cuidados paliativos de la Comunidad de Madrid, 2010–2014 (Draft of the Palliative Care strategic plan for the Community of Madrid,2010–2014)

Regional Plan

Cáncer and non-cancer

Not applicable

None

Not applicable

Gobierno vasco [56]

2006

Plan de atención a pacientes en la fase final de la vida o Cuidados Paliativos de la Comunidad autónoma vasca (Plan of patients attention in end of life stage or Palliative Care in the Basque Autonomous región)

Regional Plan

Cancer and non-cancer

Not applicable

None

Not applicable

Pascual et al. [2]

2011

Estrategia en Cuidados Paliativos del Sistema Nacional de Salud. Actualización 2010–2014 (Palliative Care Strategy of the National Health Service. Update 2010–2014)

National Plan

Cancer and non-cancer

Not applicable

None

Not applicable

Analytical studies (n = 14)

Rocafort et al. [57]

2006

Equipos de soporte de cuidados paliativos y dedicación de los equipos de atención primaria a pacientes en situación terminal en sus domicilios (Palliative care support teams and the commitment of primary care teams to terminally ill patients in their homes)

Observational

Cancer and non-cancer

Multicentre observational study.

None

19

Ko W et al. [58]

2013

Awareness of general practitioners concerning cancer patients’ preferences for place of death: evidence from four European countries.

Observational

Cancer

Retrospective study

None

28

Alonso et al. [59]

1997

Atención al paciente oncológico terminal en un distrito de atención primaria (Care for the terminal cancer patient in a primary care district)

Observational

Cancer

Unkown

None

Not applicable

Canal et al. [60]

2005

Valoración de la implantación de un Programa Integral de Cuidados Paliativos. Visión retrospectiva 1995–1999 (Evaluation of the developement of a palliative car program. Review from 1995 to 1999)

Observational

Cancer

Retrospective and descriptive included in the ecologic category, by revising clinical records

Home care, inpatients units in long term and Inpatient Units in General Hospitals

18

Simó et al. [61]

2006

Seguimiento de los pacientes atendidos conjuntamente por un equipo de Atención Primaria y su programa de Atención Domiciliaria y Equipos de Soporte (Follow-up of patients jointly cared for by a Primary Care unit, its Home Care program, and a Home Care Support Unit)

Observational

Multiple patologies: Dementia, neumologic diseases, neurologic diseases, cardiologic diseases, cancer, etcetera..

Descriptive and retrospective study

Urban basic health area of Terrasa (Barcelona)

21

Riera et al. [62]

2008

Resultados de la evaluación de un instrumento de trabajo interdisciplinar: trayectoria clínica de la Unidad de Cuidados Paliativos (Implementation of an interdisciplinary working tool: Palliative Care Unit clinical pathway. Results of its evaluation)

Observational

Advanced or terminal cáncer

A retrospective study of clinical records

“Hospital de la Esperanza”, Barcelona, Spain.

22

Costa et al. [63]

2012

Demencia avanzada y cuidados paliativos, características sociodemográficas y clínicas (Advanced dementia and palliative care, socio-demographic and clinical characteristics)

Observational

Advanced dementia

Observational descriptive

Antic Hospital St. Jaume i Sta Magdalena (Mataró, Barcelona)

22

De Santiago et al. [64]

2012

Un nuevo equipo de soporte hospitalario en el departamento de oncología de un hospital universitario: evaluación de eficacia inicial y eficiencia. (A new palliative care consultation team at the oncology department of a university hospital: an assessment of initial efficiency and effectiveness)

Experimental

Cancer and non-cancer

Retrospective study

University of Navarre Clinic, Oncology department. Pamplona, Spain

22

Alonso-Babarro et al. [65]

2013

La asociación entre la muerte del paciente, utilzación de recursos hospitalarios y disponibilidad de servicios domiciliarios para pacientes con cáncer. (The association between in-patient death, utilization of hospital resources and availability of palliative homecare for cancer patients)

Experimental

Cancer

Population-based study

Alcobendas-San-Sebastian de Los Reyes and Alcala de Henares districts

31

Vega et al. [66]

2011

Atención sanitaria paliativa y de soporte de los equipos de atención primaria en el domicilio (Palliative and support care at home in primary care)

Experimental

Cancer and non-cancer

Descriptive

Five spanish sentinel networks between October 2007 and march 2008, in five Autonomous regions: Comunidad Valenciana, La Rioja, Castilla y León, Asturias and Extremadura

16

Prades et al. [67]

2011

Tratamiento multidisciplinar en cancer en España, o cuando la función crea el órgano: estudio de entrevista cualitativa. (Multidisciplinary cancer care in Spain, or when the function creates the organ: qualitative interview study)

Experimental

Cancer

Qualitative interview study with semi-structured, one-to-one interviews

Most populated regions of Spain, namely, Andalusia, Catalonia, Madrid, Galicia and Valencia

19

Colchero et al. [68]

2009

Atención en pacientes oncológicos terminals en un distrito de atención primaria (Care of terminally ill oncology patients in an urban primary care district)

Experimental

Cancer

Transversal descriptive study

2 hospital areas in the Seville’s primary attention district, 32 centres and 278 patients

11

Agra et al. [69]

2003

Relación de la calidad de vida con diferentes modelos de atención domiciliaria en enfermos oncológicos terminales de un área sanitaria de Madrid (Relationship between quality of life and various models of home care in terminal oncology patients from a health area of Madrid)

Experimental

Cancer

A quasi-experimental prospective study

Area 4 of the “Imsalud” in Madrid

25

Rihuete et al. [70]

2005

Atención integral al paciente oncológico y su familia desde una intervención multidisciplinar (Integral attention to oncology patients and their relatives from a multidisciplinary team)

Experimental

Cancer

Retrospective analysis of social interventions and a new methodology of proactive intervention, employing multidisciplinary clinic social sessions. And finally both interventions were compared

Unit of Oncology in the University of Salamanca

14

  1. (1) Protocol of the Hawker et al. appraisal tool [9] punctuates from 1 (very poor) to 4 (good) the following aspects: 1. Abstract and title: Did they provide a clear description of the study?; 2. Introduction and aims: Was there a good background and clear statement of the aims of the research?; 3. Method and data: Is the method appropriate and clearly explained?; 4. Sampling: Was the sampling strategy appropriate to address the aims?; 5. Data analysis: Was the description of the data analysis sufficiently rigorous?; 6. Ethics and bias: Have ethical issues been addressed, and what has necessary ethical approval gained? Has the relationship between researchers and participants been adequately considered?; 7. Results: Is there a clear statement of the findings?; 8. Transferability or generalizability: Are the findings of this study transferable (generalizable) to a wider population?; 9. Implications and usefulness: How important are these findings to policy and practice?