Almost half of all adult cancer deaths in Canada—45%—happen in acute care hospitals,
although many people would have benefited from palliative care at home or in hospices …

For many people, a diagnosis of cancer provokes fear and anxiety. In fact, in a recently
released study of women diagnosed with early breast cancer, 50% had clinically important …

58 Background: High acute hospital utilization rates near end-of-life can signal that
community-based palliative care may not be suiting patients' needs. Early integration of …

Hospitals play an important role in the care of patients with advanced cancer: nearly half of
all cancer deaths occur in acute-care settings. The need for increasing access to palliative …

Background: Acute-care hospitals have a role in managing the needs of people with cancer
when they are at the end-of-life; however, overutilization of hospital care at the end-of-life …

Background Most terminally ill cancer patients would prefer not to die in hospital, but only a
minority achieve their wish. Our objective was to examine the proportion of cancer deaths …

Although studies have found that 50–70% of cancer patients would prefer to die at home,
there has been a trend towards the hospitalization of the dying in many countries. No study …

During the past 10 years, many organizations have implemented quality metrics for end-of-
life care. One of the most important is inpatient hospital mortality, 1 which is typically …

Acute care hospitalization near the end of life for cancer patients who die in hospital in Canada
Page 1 ACUTE CARE HOSPITALIZATION NEAR THE END OF LIFE, DeCaria et al. 256 …

9527 Background: Over the past decades, dramatic changes in the treatment of advanced
cancer have raised concerns regarding the quality of end-of-life care in terminally-ill …