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ListsMarguet, Oriane E., Chen, Shanquan, Sidhom, Emad, Wolverson, Emma, Russell, Gregor, Crowther, George, White, Simon R., Lewis, Jonathan, Dunning, Rebecca, Hasan, Shahrin and Underwood, Benjamin R. (2025) Mortality and its predictors among people with dementia receiving psychiatric in-patient care. BJPsych Open, 11 (3). pp. 1-7.
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Abstract
Background
Although dementia is a terminal condition, palliation can be a challenge for clinical services. As dementia progresses, people frequently develop behavioural and psychological symptoms, sometimes so severe they require care in specialist dementia mental health wards. Although these are often a marker of late disease, there has been little research on the mortality of people admitted to these wards.
Aims
We sought to describe the mortality of this group, both on-ward and after discharge, and to investigate clinical features predicting 1-year mortality.
Method
First, we conducted a retrospective analysis of 576 people with dementia admitted to the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust dementia wards over an 8-year period. We attempted to identify predictors of mortality and build predictive machine learning models. To investigate deaths occurring during admission, we conducted a second analysis as a retrospective service evaluation involving mental health wards for people with dementia at four NHS trusts, including 1976 admissions over 7 years.
Results
Survival following admission showed high variability, with a median of 1201 days (3.3 years). We were not able to accurately predict those at high risk of death from clinical data. We found that on-ward mortality remains rare but had increased from 3 deaths per year in 2013 to 13 in 2019.
Conclusions
We suggest that arrangements to ensure effective palliation are available on all such wards. It is not clear where discussions around end-of-life care are best placed in the dementia pathway, but we suggest it should be considered at admission.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Identifier: | 10.1192/bjo.2025.40 |
| Keywords: | Dementia; behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia; mortality; palliative care. |
| Subjects: | Medicine and health > Clinical medicine > Dementia Medicine and health > Mental health |
| Depositing User: | Heather Loveday |
| Date Deposited: | 30 May 2025 14:28 |
| Last Modified: | 30 May 2025 15:30 |
| URI: | https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/13736 |
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