Open AccessHospice Use and High-Intensity Care in Men Dying of Prostate Cancer
Author(s) -
Jonathan Bergman,
Christopher S. Saigal,
Karl Lorenz,
Janet Hanley,
David C. Miller,
John L. Gore,
Mark S. Litwin
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.394
Subject(s) - medicine , prostate cancer , odds ratio , logistic regression , confidence interval , cancer , comorbidity , epidemiology , cohort , emergency medicine , gerontology
Hospice programs improve the quality of life and quality of death for men dying of cancer. We sought to characterize hospice use by men dying of prostate cancer and to compare the use of high-intensity care between those who did or did not enroll in hospice.
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