Table 1.
Meta-analyses on the outcomes of specialist palliative care for patients with cancer.
| Setting | No. of Studies | No. of Patients | Quality of Life SMD (95% CI) |
Symptoms SMD (95% CI) |
Mood SMD (95% CI) |
Survival HR (95% CI) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kavalieratos et al. 2016 [16] | IP/OP | 11 | 1670 | 0.12 (−0.2, 0.27) |
−0.14 (−0.39, 0.10) |
0.82 (0.60, 1.13) | |
| Gartner et al. 2017 [14] | IP/OP | 5 | 828 | 0.20 (0.01, 0.38) |
−0.21 (−1.35, 0.94) |
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| OP (early only) | 2 | 388 | 0.33 (0.05, 0.61) |
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| Haun et al. 2017 [15] | OP | 7 | 1614 | 0.27 (0.15, 0.38) |
−0.23 (−0.35, −0.10) |
−0.11 (−0.26, 0.03) |
0.85 (0.56, 1.28) |
| Heorger et al. 2019 [17] | OP | 8 | 2092 | 0.18 (0.09, 0.28) |
1y: 14.1% (6.5%, 21.7%) |
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| Fulton et al. 2019 [18] | OP | 10 | 2385 | 0.24 (0.13, 0.35) |
−0.17 (−0.45, 0.11) |
−0.09 (−0.32, 0.13) |
0.84 (0.61, 1.18) |
Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; HR, hazard ratio; IP, inpatient; OP, outpatient; SMD, standardized mean difference.