Hospital-based palliative care referrals: determinants in older adults with cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Early palliative care improves the quality of life of older patients with cancer. This work aimed to analyse the effect of sociodemographic, geriatric, and tumour-related determinants on hospital-based palliative care (HPC) referral in older patients with cancer, taking into account competing risk of death.

Methods

Older adults with diagnosed cancer from 2014 to 2018 according to the general cancer registry of Gironde (French department) were identified in three population-based cohorts on ageing (PAQUID, 3C - Three City, AMI). Cause-specific Cox models focused on 10 usual determinants in geriatric oncology and palliative care: age, gender, living alone, place of residency, tumour prognosis, activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental-ADL (IADL) limitations,

SUBMITTER: Chanteclair A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11671924 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature