2024
DOI: 10.1136/spcare-2023-004756
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Inpatient deaths by medical service: characteristics in a comprehensive cancer centre

Sebastiano Mercadante,
Alessio Lo Cascio,
Alessandra Casuccio

Abstract: AimTo examine the intensity of care in the last 3 days of life in different medical settings of a comprehensive cancer centre.MethodsIn this retrospective study, the charts of patients who died in hospital from July 2019 to June 2023 were reviewed. The units taken into consideration were acute palliative care unit (APCU), oncology (ONC) and haematology (HEM), which included also the transplantation unit. Age, gender, diagnosis, Karnofsky or Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, drugs used in the last 3 days of l… Show more

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