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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116913
论文题名:
The Association between Individual Income and Aggressive End-of-Life Treatment in Older Cancer Decedents in Taiwan
作者: Chih-Yuan Huang; Yeh-Ting Hung; Chun-Ming Chang; Shiun-Yang Juang; Ching-Chih Lee
刊名: PLOS ONE
ISSN: 1932-6203
出版年: 2015
发表日期: 2015-1-13
卷: 10, 期:1
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Social stratification ; End of life care ; Hospitals ; Taiwan ; Cancer detection and diagnosis ; Health insurance ; Intensive care units ; Urban geography
英文摘要: Objectives To examine the association of individual income and end of life (EOL) care in older cancer decedents in Taiwan. Design Retrospective cohort study. Setting National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) in Taiwan. Participants 28,978 decedents >65 years were diagnosed with cancer and died during 2009-2011 in Taiwan. Of these decedents, 10941, 16535, and 1502 were categorized by individual income as having low, moderate, and high SES, respectively. Main outcome measures Indicators of aggressiveness of EOL care: chemotherapy use before EOL, more than one emergency department (ER) visit, more than one hospital admission, hospital length of stay >14 days, intensive care unit (ICU) admission, and dying in a hospital. Results Low individual income was associated with more aggressive EOL treatment (estimate -0.30 for moderate income, -0.27 for high income, both p<0.01). The major source of aggressiveness was the tendency for older decedents with low income to die in the acute care hospital. The indicators had an increasing trend from 2009 to 2011, except for hospital stay >14 days. Conclusions Low individual income is associated with more aggressive EOL treatment in older cancer decedents. Public health providers should make available appropriate education and hospice resources to these decedents and their families, to reduce the amount of aggressive terminal care such decedents receive.
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作者单位: Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan;Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, No.2, Ming-Sheng Road, Dalin Town, Chiayi, 622, Taiwan (ROC);Department of Pediatrics, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan;Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, No.2, Ming-Sheng Road, Dalin Town, Chiayi, 622, Taiwan (ROC);Department of Surgery, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan;Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, No.2, Ming-Sheng Road, Dalin Town, Chiayi, 622, Taiwan (ROC);Department of Medical Research, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan;Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, No.2, Ming-Sheng Road, Dalin Town, Chiayi, 622, Taiwan (ROC);School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan;Department of Otolaryngology, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan;Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan;Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, No.2, Ming-Sheng Road, Dalin Town, Chiayi, 622, Taiwan (ROC)

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Chih-Yuan Huang,Yeh-Ting Hung,Chun-Ming Chang,et al. The Association between Individual Income and Aggressive End-of-Life Treatment in Older Cancer Decedents in Taiwan[J]. PLOS ONE,2015-01-01,10(1)
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