Place of death for patients with cancer in the United States, 1999 through 2015: Racial, age, and geographic disparities
Place of death for patients with cancer in the United States, 1999 through 2015: Racial, age, and geographic disparities
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DOI:
10.1002/cncr.31737
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发表时间:
2018-11-15
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影响因子:
6.2
通讯作者:
Chino, Junzo P.
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作者:
Chino, Fumiko;Kamal, Arif H.;Chino, Junzo P.
BACKGROUND Place of death is an essential component of high quality cancer care and comprehensive national trends and disparities in place of death are unknown. METHODS Deidentified death certificate data were obtained via the National Center for Health Statistics. All cancer deaths from 1999 through 2015 were included. Multivariate logistic regression was used to test for disparities in place of death associated with sociodemographic variables. RESULTS From 1999 through 2015, a total of 9,646,498 cancer deaths occurred. Hospital deaths decreased (from 36.6% to 24.6%), whereas the rate of home deaths (38.4% to 42.6%) and hospice facility deaths (0% to 14.0%) both increased (all P