• Xia Li, Shuying Hu, Yaoqun Zhou, Xihong Ying, and Tao Wu.
• General Practice Medical Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, China.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2024 Oct 4; 103 (40): e39817e39817.

AbstractThe objective was to explore impacts of nurse-led palliative care interventions on elderly cancer patients in terms of symptom management and life quality outcomes. This retrospective study examined 150 cancer patients from January 2021 to September 2023, divided into 2 groups based on nurse-led palliative care receipt. The observation group (n = 90) received nurse-led palliative care while the control group (n = 60) received routine nursing frequency was 3 times per week for 6 months. The treatment-related symptoms (therapy-related symptoms checklist, TRSC) was used to evaluate the symptom improvement rate of patients, the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-C30) was used to evaluate the improvement of patients' quality of life, and Chinese version of the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI-C) and Chinese version of the Brief Fatigue Inventory (BFI-C) were used to access the improvement of pain and fatigue respectively. Following the intervention, symptom improvement rate in the observation group exhibited markedly superior compared to the control group (100% vs 91.67%, P < .05) and a significant improvement in the patient's health-related quality of life was observed in the observation group at 1, 3, and 5 months postintervention (P < .05). In additional, the observation group displayed notably lower scores on both BPI-C and the BFI-C in contrast to the control group (P < .05). Nurse-led palliative care interventions can effectively improve symptom management and quality of life in elderly cancer patients compared to routine nursing care.Copyright © 2024 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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