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Deaths from hepatocellular carcinoma are more likely to occur in medical facilities than deaths from other cancers: 2003‐2018
Author(s) -
Truitt Katie,
Khan Sadiya S.,
Gregory Dyanna L.,
Chuzi Sarah,
VanWagner Lisa B.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
liver international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.873
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1478-3231
pISSN - 1478-3223
DOI - 10.1111/liv.14915
Subject(s) - medicine , death certificate , place of death , hepatocellular carcinoma , cause of death , cancer , liver cancer , emergency medicine , gerontology , family medicine , medical emergency , palliative care , nursing , disease
Abstract Place of death is a key indicator of quality of end‐of‐life care, and most people with a terminal diagnosis prefer to die at home. Home has surpassed the hospital as the most common location of all‐cause and total cancer‐related deaths in the United States. However, trends in place of death due to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), which is uniquely comanaged by hepatologists and oncologists, have not been described. We analysed US death certificate data from 2003 to 2018 for the proportion of deaths over time at medical facilities, nursing facilities, hospice facilities and home, for HCC and non‐HCC cancer. The proportion of deaths increased from 0.6% to 15.2% in hospice facilities ( P trend < 0.0001) but did not change at home. In multivariable analysis, persons with HCC were more likely than persons with non‐HCC cancer to die in medical facilities, while persons with HCC were less likely to die at home.