End-of-life cost and its determinants for cancer patients in urban China: a population-based retrospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to define the end-of-life (EOL) healthcare utilisation and its cost and determinants for cancer patients and to proactively inform related strategies in mainland China.

Design

A population-based retrospective study.

Setting and participants

Data from 894 cancer patients were collected in urban Yichang, China from 01 July 2015 to 30 June 2017.

Outcome measures

Emergency department (ED) visits, outpatient and inpatient hospitalisation services, intensive care unit (ICU) admission and total costs were used as the main outcomes.

Results

In this study, 66.8% of the 894 patients were male, and the average age was 60.4 years. Among these patients, 37.6% died at home, and patients had an average of 4.86 outpatient services, 2.23 inpati

SUBMITTER: Li Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6528019 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature