Factors related to and economic implications of inhospital death in German lung cancer patients - results of a Nationwide health insurance claims data based study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

When patients die in a hospital their quality of life is lower than when they die at home or in a hospice. Despite efforts to improve palliative care supply structures, still about 60% of lung cancer patients die in a hospital. Studies have examined factors related to inhospital death in lung cancer patients, yet none used data of a representative German population, additionally including economic aspects. This study aimed to identify factors related to inhospital death in German lung cancer patients and analysed resulting costs.

Methods

We analysed a dataset of health insurance claims of 17,478 lung cancer patients (incident 2009) with 3 year individual follow-up. We grouped patients into inhospital death and death elsewhere. Studied factors were indicators of he

SUBMITTER: Deckert K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6194570 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature