Prescribing opioids on demand in palliative care, proportion (%) - Target level ≥ 98
Description
The indicator shows the proportion of patients who had an opioid injection for pain when they died. When care is transferred to palliative care, there must be appropriate prescriptions if the patient is in pain. The prescription should be individually adapted, as general prescriptions are not considered good enough at this stage. Medical responsibility sometimes moves from the specialist to a doctor in primary care who is responsible for home care or special forms of housing. In this case, it is especially important that there are no gaps in important prescriptions. Pain can be treated in several ways, but when there is a short time left in life, priority should be given to the treatment that has the fastest effect, i.e. in the form of an injection. The time between increased pain and relief can be unnecessarily long. First, the patient who is in pain should consider that it hurts enough to tell or sound the alarm. Thereafter, this alarm should reach a nurse who, after making his or her assessment, must have both an adequate prescription and access to medicines. In order to keep the time from alarm to pain-relieving injection reasonably short, all stages of this chain must be as well prepared as possible. If there are written procedures for how prescriptions should be made in this situation, the proportion of completed prescriptions increases.
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http://data.europa.eu/88u/dataset/http-api-kolada-se-v2-kpi-u70515 |
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- rådet-för-främjande-av-kommunala-analyser-kolada
- region