Features and Differences in Core Symptom Clusters in Home-Based Hospice Patients With Advanced Cancer: A Network Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Patients with terminal-stage cancer frequently experience multiple symptoms simultaneously. Little is known about how core symptom clusters differ in advanced-cancer patients with different survival expectancies receiving hospice care. To identify the core symptom clusters of hospice-care cancer patients with different survival expectancies and compare the features of their symptom networks.

Methods

In this retrospective study, secondary data analysis was conducted. Records of 6946 patients with advanced cancer who received home-based hospice care service in a hospice center from April 2001 to December 2020 were collected and analyzed using network analysis.

Results

This analysis included 6946 patients with advanced cancer receiving hospice care. In patie

SUBMITTER: Wei Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11532887 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature