End‐of‐life care: Where do cancer patients want to die? A systematic review
- 13 March 2017
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology
- Vol. 13 (6), 356-364
- https://doi.org/10.1111/ajco.12678
Abstract
The importance to die at preferred death place is substantial among terminally ill cancer patients. Previously, several studies have investigated this issue, but no systematic review has been made for many years. This systematic review was made in order to investigate preferred death place among cancer patients. A systematic search was made in PubMed library and a total of 399 articles were found, of which 23 were eligible and included in the review. Preference of home death averaged by 59.9% (39.7–100%) across all studies. Information about actual death place was only reported in 12 studies with an average of 40.4% (14–65.2%); thus, the incongruence between preferred and actual death place seems to be substantial. This highlights the importance of health care providers to discuss the issue with the patients and their families. However, study designs must improve and publications of socioeconomic data should be unified to ease interpretation in future studies.Keywords
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