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3b) Advance care planning with focus on specific socio-cultural backgrounds
P-66 Contribution factors of end-of-life care options for patients in south east asian cohort
  1. Jane CQ Wong1,
  2. Cindy SL Lau1,
  3. SH Tan2,
  4. BC Tan2,
  5. CSH Ng2,
  6. SM Lim2,
  7. G Wong2 and
  8. KLD Sim1
  1. 1National Heart Centre Singapore, Cardiology, Singapore, Singapore
  2. 2National Heart Centre Singapore, Medical Social Work, Singapore, Singapore

Abstract

Background Our institution has implemented advance care planning (ACP) for cardiac inpatients since 2013.

Aim To explore main contributing factors influencing patients’ choice of end-of-life (EOL) care options.

Methods Patients hospitalised for heart failure, arrhythmia, myocardial infarction were enrolled from 1st June 2013 to 30th November 2014.

Results 112 patients were enrolled from a screening of 1943 patients. Out of 112 patients, 69 (61.6%) had completed ACP discussions. 57 (82.6%) patients chose comfort care (CC) whereas 12 (17.4%) chose life-sustaining treatments (LST) for their EOL care. Mean age for CC patients is 62.3 and mean age for LST patients is 59.7. 86.0% patients who chose CC stay with their family compared to 91.7% patients in LST. 49.1% of CC patients are unemployed whereas 83.3% of LST patients are unemployed. 68.4% of CC patients are married compared to 58.3% of LST patients. 10.5% of CC patients had no education compared to 25% of LST patients. 19.3% of CC patients had no religion compared to 8.3% of LST patients. No difference in gender distribution (77.2% for CC patients vs 75.0% for LST patients). More Chinese patients opted for CC (96.5% vs 75.0% in LST patients).

Discussion Patients who chose CC are generally older, employed, married, educated, Chinese race compared to LST. Majority of CC group prefer quality of life to quantity of life,  and do not want to burden family due to length, cost of treatments and emotion endurance.

Conclusion Patient’s EOL care options are contributed by multiple factors like age, education, race, employment status and marital status.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2015-000978.196

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