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Potentially Burdensome Care at the End-of-life for Cancer Decedents: a Retrospective Population-wide Study by Mitchell, Rebecca J (author);Delaney, Geoffrey P (author);Arnolda, Gaston (author);Liauw, Winston (author);Phillips, Jane L (author);Lystad, Reidar P (author);Harrison, Reema (author);Braithwaite, Jeffrey (author) is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Background Variation persists in the quality of end-of-life-care (EOLC) for people with cancer. This study aims to describe the characteristics of, and examine factors associated with, indicators of potentially burdensome care provided in hospital, and use of hospital services in the last 12 months of life for people who had a death from cancer. ## Method A population-based retrospective cohort study of people aged ≥ 20 years who died with a cancer-related cause of death during 2014–2019 in New South Wales, Australia using linked hospital, cancer registry and mortality records. Ten indicators of potentially burdensome care were examined. Multinominal logistic regression examined predictors of a composite measure of potentially burdensome care, consisting of > 1 ED presentation or > 1 hospital admission or ≥ 1 ICU admission within 30 days of death, or died in acute care. ## Results Of the 80,005 cancer-related deaths, 86.9% were hospitalised in the 12 months prior to death. Fifteen percent had > 1 ED presentation, 9.9% had > 1 hospital admission, 8.6% spent ≥ 14 days in hospital, 3.6% had ≥ 1 intensive care unit admission, and 1.2% received mechanical ventilation on ≥ 1 occasion

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Author
Mitchell, Rebecca J (author);Delaney, Geoffrey P (author);Arnolda, Gaston (author);Liauw, Winston (author);Phillips, Jane L (author);Lystad, Reidar P (author);Harrison, Reema (author);Braithwaite, Jeffrey (author)
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2024
Language
EN
Field
Medicine (Health Sciences)

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