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Factors Associated With Aggressiveness of End-of-Life Care for Lung Cancer Patients and Associated Costs of Care
- Source :
- Clinical Lung Cancer. 22:e320-e328
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2021.
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Abstract
- Results of previous studies demonstrated that high-intensity end-of-life (EOL) care improves neither cancer patients' survival nor quality of life. Our objective was to assess the incidence of and factors associated with aggressiveness of care during the last 30 days of life (DOL) of lung cancer (LC) patients and the impacts of aggressiveness of care in EOL-care costs.Using French national hospital database, all patients with LC who died between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2011, or between January 1, 2015, and January 31, 2016, were included. EOL-care aggressiveness was assessed using the following criteria: chemotherapy administered within the last 14 DOL; more than one hospitalization within the last 30 DOL; admission to the intensive care unit within the last 30 DOL; and palliative care initiated 3 days before death. Expenditures were limited to direct costs, from a health care payer's perspective.Among 79,746 adult LC patients identified; 57% had at least one indicator of EOL-care aggressiveness (49% repeated hospitalizations, 12% intensive care unit admissions, 9% chemotherapy, 5% palliative care). It increased significantly between the 2 periods (56% vs. 58%, P .001). Young age, male sex, shorter time since diagnosis, comorbidities, no malnutrition, type of care facility other than general hospital, social deprivation, and low-density population were independently associated with having one or more indicator of aggressive EOL care. The mean EOL cost was €8152 ± 5117 per patient, but the cost was significantly higher for patients with at least one EOL-care aggressiveness criterion (€9480 vs. €6376, P .001).In France, a majority of LC patients had at least one criterion of aggressive EOL care that had a major economic impact on the health care system.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
0301 basic medicine
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Cancer Research
medicine.medical_specialty
Lung Neoplasms
Palliative care
Adolescent
Databases, Factual
law.invention
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
Sex Factors
0302 clinical medicine
Quality of life (healthcare)
law
Health care
medicine
Humans
Lung cancer
Aged
Retrospective Studies
Aged, 80 and over
Terminal Care
business.industry
Incidence (epidemiology)
Palliative Care
Age Factors
Cancer
Health Care Costs
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Intensive care unit
Hospitalization
Intensive Care Units
030104 developmental biology
Oncology
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Emergency medicine
Female
France
business
End-of-life care
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15257304
- Volume :
- 22
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Lung Cancer
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2b9804b9252e87883ebcea230234c64e