Comparing the Quality of Death for Hospice and Non-Hospice Cancer Patients
作者:
Kenneth Wallston,
Candice Burger,
Roberta Ann Smith,
Robert Baugher,
期刊:
Medical Care
(OVID Available online 1988)
卷期:
Volume 26,
issue 2
页码: 177-182
ISSN:0025-7079
年代: 1988
出版商: OVID
关键词: hospice;terminal care;terminal illness;death and dying;quality of life;quality of care;cancer;measurement
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
In this secondary analysis of data from the National Hospice Study (NHS), a new measure, quality of death (QOD), was developed by weighting reports of cancer patients' last 3 days of life by what patients wanted their last 3 days to be like. Using analysis of covariance, the QOD scores were higher for terminally ill patients in hospices (either home-care [HC] or hospital-based [HB]) than similar patients who received conventional care (CC). The results are discussed in terms of verification of the hospice philosophy and other uses for a quality of death measure.
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