Potentially burdensome care at the end-of-life for cancer decedents: a retrospective population-wide study.

ABSTRACT:

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

SUBMITTER: Mitchell RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10835903 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature