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Palliative Care in Patients With COVID-19: Analysis of Costs of Hospitalization in Wards and Intensive Care Units

NCT05897229 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2023-06-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The confrontation of COVID-19 foreshadowed a serious crisis of scarce health resources worldwide. To assist in this confrontation, the Palliative Care Scientific Technical Core of the Clinical Hospital, School of Medicine, Sao Paulo University (USP) elaborated a Triage Protocol for Palliative Care (PALI-COVID Tool) and it was possible to categorize the patients in three groups, according to the risk of death and needs of Palliative Care (PC), through the clinical evaluation of the patient that also directed them to the hospitalization resource according to their need (ward x ICU).

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Analysis of costs with patient care during hospitalization

Analysis of direct costs with supplies, medications, diets, laboratory tests and imaging exams, and invasive procedures such as mechanical ventilation, dialysis, and the use of vasoactive drugs.-analysis of costs referring to working hours of physicians, nurses and physical therapists in each unit normalized for the same number of beds.- cost minimization and consequential cost analysis.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Sao Paulo General Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ricardo T de Carvalho, MD, PhD · University of Sao Paulo General Hospital

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-10-01
Primary Completion
2025-03-01
Completion
2026-10-01

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