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Purpose: Suicidality and suicidal ideation (SI) in oncology has long been an underestimated danger. Although there are cancer-specific distress screening tools available, none of these specifically incorporates items for SI. We examined the prevalence of SI in cancer patients, investigated the relation between SI and distress, and tried to identify additional associated factors. Methods: A cross-sectional study with patients treated for cancer in a primary care hospital was conducted. Psychosocial distress and SI in 226 patients was assessed. An expert rating scale (PO-Bado-SF) and a self-assessment instrument (QSC-R23) were used to measure distress. SI was assessed with item 9 of the PHQ-9. Data was descriptively analyzed, and correlations and group comparisons between clinically distressed and non-distressed patients were calculated. Results: SI was reported by 15% of patients. Classified as clinically distressed were 24.8% (QSC-R23) to 36.7% (PO-Bado-SF). SI was correlated with externally (rτ = 0.19, p < 0.001) and self-rated distress (rτ = 0.31, p < 0.001). Symptoms sufficiently severe for at least a medium major depressive episode were recorded in 23.5% of patients (PHQ-9). Factors associated with SI were feeling bad about oneself, feeling down, depressed, and hopeless, deficits in activities of daily life, psycho-somatic afflictions, social restrictions, and restrictions in daily life. Being in a steady relationship seemed to have a protective effect. Conclusions: SI is common in cancer patients. Distress and associated factors are increased in patients with SI. A distress screening with the ability to assess SI could be an important step in prevention, but more research is necessary.
Purpose: In this study, we examined distress levels and quality of life (QoL) of patients with hematologic malignancies under treatment in an acute setting. We used external- and self-assessment instruments for distress. Additionally, we investigated the relation between distress and QoL as well as whether highly distressed patients differed from less distressed patients concerning their QoL.
Methods: A cross-sectional study with patients of the Medical Clinic II of the University Hospital Frankfurt was conducted. One hundred and nine patients were assessed with an expert rating scale and completed self-report questionnaires. Data were exploratively analyzed and group comparisons between patients who scored above the cut-off of the respective screening instruments and those who did not were conducted.
Results: Patients with hematologic malignancies experience high levels of distress and low QoL. Especially, role and social functioning are affected. Patients suffer most from fatigue, appetite loss, and insomnia. Using established cut-offs, all screening instruments were able to differentiate between patients regarding distress and QoL. Patients scoring above the cut-off were significantly more distressed and had a lower QoL. There was a medium-to-strong correlation between distress and QoL indicators.
Conclusion: Cancer-specific screening instruments seem to be able to identify treatment needs more specifically. They also allowed a better differentiation concerning QoL. The close link between distress and QoL needs to be recognized to enable a holistic approach to treatment and thereby optimize the quality of treatment.
Purpose: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses major challenges to health-care systems worldwide. This pandemic demonstrates the importance of timely access to intensive care and, therefore, this study aims to explore the accessibility of intensive care beds in 14 European countries and its impact on the COVID-19 case fatality ratio (CFR).
Methods: We examined access to intensive care beds by deriving (1) a regional ratio of intensive care beds to 100,000 population capita (accessibility index, AI) and (2) the distance to the closest intensive care unit. The cross-sectional analysis was performed at a 5-by-5 km spatial resolution and results were summarized nationally for 14 European countries. The relationship between AI and CFR was analyzed at the regional level.
Results: We found national-level differences in the levels of access to intensive care beds. The AI was highest in Germany (AI = 35.3), followed by Estonia (AI = 33.5) and Austria (AI = 26.4), and lowest in Sweden (AI = 5) and Denmark (AI = 6.4). The average travel distance to the closest hospital was highest in Croatia (25.3 min by car) and lowest in Luxembourg (9.1 min). Subnational results illustrate that capacity was associated with population density and national-level inventories. The correlation analysis revealed a negative correlation of ICU accessibility and COVID-19 CFR (r = − 0.57; p < 0.001).
Conclusion: Geographical access to intensive care beds varies significantly across European countries and low ICU accessibility was associated with a higher proportion of COVID-19 deaths to cases (CFR). Important differences in access are due to the sizes of national resource inventories and the distribution of health-care facilities relative to the human population. Our findings provide a resource for officials planning public health responses beyond the current COVID-19 pandemic, such as identifying potential locations suitable for temporary facilities or establishing logistical plans for moving severely ill patients to facilities with available beds.
Improving spatial accessibility to hospitals is a major task for health care systems which can be facilitated using recent methodological improvements of spatial accessibility measures. We used the integrated floating catchment area (iFCA) method to analyze spatial accessibility of general inpatient care (internal medicine, surgery and neurology) on national level in Germany determining an accessibility index (AI) by integrating distances, hospital beds and morbidity data. The analysis of 358 million distances between hospitals and population locations revealed clusters of lower accessibility indices in areas in north east Germany. There was a correlation of urbanity and accessibility up to r = 0.31 (p < 0.001). Furthermore, 10% of the population lived in areas with significant clusters of low spatial accessibility for internal medicine and surgery (neurology: 20%). The analysis revealed the highest accessibility for heart failure (AI = 7.33) and the lowest accessibility for stroke (AI = 0.69). The method applied proofed to reveal important aspects of spatial accessibility i.e. geographic variations that need to be addressed. However, for the majority of the German population, accessibility of general inpatient care was either high or at least not significantly low, which suggests rather adequate allocation of hospital resources for most parts of Germany.
Hintergrund: Parkinson-Syndrome führen im Krankheitsverlauf zur Pflegebedürftigkeit bei den Betroffenen. Zur Prävalenz der Bewohner*innen mit einem Parkinson-Syndrom in Pflegeeinrichtungen, zu ihrer Versorgungssituation und zur vorhandenen Expertise der Pflegefachpersonen in den Einrichtungen ist wenig bekannt.
Ziel der Arbeit: Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Prävalenzrate der Bewohner*innen mit einem Parkinson-Syndrom in stationären Pflegeeinrichtungen in Deutschland. Die Arbeit exploriert die Zusammenarbeit verschiedener Akteure, deren Koordination sowie Information und Wissen des Pflegepersonals. Ziel ist es, einen möglichen Bedarf an spezialisierter Pflege in Pflegeeinrichtungen aufzuzeigen.
Methode: Die schriftliche Querschnittsbefragung der Wohnbereichsleitungen von 500 zufällig ausgewählten Pflegeeinrichtungen in Deutschland erfolgte von Januar bis Juni 2020. Der eingesetzte Fragebogen wurde vorab literaturbasiert entwickelt. Die Daten wurden deskriptiv analysiert.
Ergebnisse: Aus 57 Einrichtungen wurden Fragebogen von 85 Wohnbereichen analysiert (Rücklaufquote 11,4 %). Die Prävalenzrate von Bewohner*innen mit einem Parkinson-Syndrom in der stationären Altenhilfe beträgt 13,9 %. Mehr als die Hälfte haben zusätzlich eine Demenzdiagnose (52,8 %). In 26 % der Fälle erfolgen Krankenhausaufenthalte infolge von Sturzereignissen. Eine eindeutige Koordination der Versorgung durch ärztliche oder pflegerische Spezialisten gibt es nicht.
Diskussion: Bewohner*innen mit einem Parkinson-Syndrom in der stationären Altenhilfe sind häufig, und sie zeigen komplexe motorische und nichtmotorische Symptome – auch durch die Komorbidität Demenz. Die Häufigkeit von Sturzereignissen mit Krankenhausaufenthalten und die geringe Anzahl Parkinson-Syndrom-spezifischer Hilfsmittel zeigen, dass das Wissen der Pflege vor Ort gesteigert werden kann. Eine zentrale Koordination und Unterstützung hierzu sollten in der stationären Langzeitpflege etabliert werden.
Bloodstream infections (BSI) are a frequent complication in patients with hematological and oncological diseases. However, the impact of different bacterial species causing BSI and of multiple BSI remains incompletely understood. We performed a retrospective study profiling 637 bacterial BSI episodes in hematological and oncological patients. Based on the 30-day (30d) overall survival (OS), we analyzed different types of multiple BSI and grouped BSI-associated bacteria into clusters followed by further assessment of clinical and infection-related characteristics. We discovered that polymicrobial BSI (different organisms on the first day of a BSI episode) and sequential BSI (another BSI before the respective BSI episode) were associated with a worse 30d OS. Different bacterial groups could be classified into three BSI outcome clusters based on 30d OS: favorable (FAV) including mainly common skin contaminants, Escherichia spp. and Streptococcus spp.; intermediate (INT) including mainly Enterococcus spp., vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus spp., and multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria (MDRGN); and adverse (ADV) including MDRGN with an additional carbapenem-resistance (MDRGN+CR). A polymicrobial or sequential BSI especially influenced the outcome in the combination of two INT cluster BSI. The presence of a polymicrobial BSI and the assignment into the BSI outcome clusters were identified as independent risk factors for 30d mortality in a Cox multivariate regression analysis. The assignment to a BSI outcome cluster and the differentiated perspective of multiple BSI open new insights into the prognosis of patients with BSI and should be further validated in other patient cohorts.
This focus issue of the European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery compiles a collection of outstanding clinical research using the immense dataset of the German TraumaRegister DGU® (TR-DGU). The TR-DGU of the German Trauma Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Unfallchirurgie, DGU) was founded in 1993. Currently, approximately 40,000 cases from more than 600 hospitals are entered into the database every year. The selected articles of this focus on issue highlight the immense value the TR-DGU constitutes for the current, but also for the future trauma research.
Zielsetzung: Die Daten für das Jahr 2019 des Registers „Abdominelles Aortenaneurysma“ (AAA) des Deutschen Instituts für Gefäßmedizinische Gesundheitsforschung (DIGG) der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Gefäßchirurgie und Gefäßmedizin werden vorgestellt.
Methodik: Im Jahr 2019 beteiligten sich an dem Register insgesamt 109 Kliniken. Für die offene Versorgung (OR) des intakten AAA (iAAA) gaben 78 (71,6 %) Kliniken, für die endovaskuläre Versorgung (EVAR) des iAAA 102 (93,6 %) Kliniken Daten ein. Für das rupturierte AAA (rAAA) wurden von 36 Kliniken (33,0 %) (EVAR) bzw. 50 (45,9 %) Kliniken (OR) Patienten gemeldet. Ausgewertet wurden die Daten von 1967 stationär behandelten Patienten. Von den insgesamt 1793 iAAA waren 1501 infrarenal (83,7 %) und 292 (16,3 %) juxtarenal gelegen.
Ergebnisse: 1429 iAAA (79,7 %) wurden endovaskulär und 364 (20,3 %) offen versorgt. Bei den endovaskulär versorgten Patienten mit iAAA verlief der Eingriff in 86,3 % der Fälle komplikationslos. Es verstarben insgesamt 15 Patienten (1,0 %) bis zur Entlassung. Bei den offen versorgten Patienten wiesen 67,0 % der Patienten keine Komplikationen auf. Verstorben sind insgesamt 20 Patienten (5,5 %). Bei EVAR war die Klinikletalität bei Versorgung juxtarenaler AAA mit 3,7 % signifikant höher als bei Versorgung infrarenaler AAA mit 0,6 % (p = 0,002), bei OR konnten hingegen keine signifikanten Unterschiede hinsichtlich der Klinikletalität aufgezeigt werden (juxtarenal 4,8 %, infrarenal 5,8 %; p = 0,470). Von den 174 Patienten mit rAAA wurden 80 (46,0 %) endovaskulär und 94 (54,0 %) offen versorgt. Bei EVAR sind 20,0 % der Patienten während des stationären Aufenthalts verstorben, bei OR 36,2 %.
Schlussfolgerung: Die Ergebnisse des Jahres 2019 zu Klinikletalität und Morbidität bei endovaskulärer und offener Versorgung des iAAA bestätigen weitgehend die publizierten Ergebnisse für die Jahre 2013 bis 2018. Beim rAAA sind die Ergebnisse der einzelnen Jahresberichte hingegen widersprüchlich, die kleinen berichteten jährlichen Fallzahlen erlauben nur Aussagen über größere Zeiträume.
Introduction: The induced membrane technique for the treatment of large bone defects is a two-step procedure. In the first operation, a foreign body membrane is induced around a spacer, then, in the second step, several weeks or months later, the spacer is removed and the Membrane pocket is filled with autologous bone material. Induction of a functional biological membrane might be avoided by initially using a biological membrane. In this study, the effect of a human acellular dermis (hADM, Epiflex, DIZG gGmbH) was evaluated for the treatment of a large (5 mm), plate-stabilised femoral bone defect.
Material and Methods: In an established rat model, hADM was compared to the two-stage induced membrane technique and a bone defect without membrane cover. Syngeneous spongiosa from donor animals was used for defect filling in all groups. The group size in each case was n = 5, the induction time of the membrane was 3–4 weeks and the healing time after filling of the defect was 8 weeks.
Results: The ultimate loads were increased to levels comparable with native bone in both membrane groups (hADM: 63.2% ± 29.6% of the reference bone, p < 0.05 vs. no membrane, induced membrane: 52.1% ± 25.8% of the reference bone, p < 0.05 vs. no membrane) and were significantly higher than the control group without membrane (21.5%). The membrane groups were radiologically and histologically almost completely bridged by new bone formation, in contrast to the control Group where no closed osseous bridging could be observed.
Conclusion: The use of the human acellular dermis leads to equivalent healing results in comparison to the two-stage induced membrane technique. This could lead to a shortened therapy duration of large bone defects.