Background Many patients wish to stay at home during the terminal stage of cancer.
However, there is concern that medical care provided at home may negatively affect …

To investigate whether dying at home influences the likelihood that a terminal cancer patient
will achieve a good death despite the limited medical resources available in many …

Background Only a small number of patients have utilized the home-based end-of-life care
service in Shanghai that has been offered since 2012. This study explores how home-based …

Objectives To determine the relative influence of different factors on place of death in
patients with cancer. Data sources Four electronic databases—Medline (1966-2004) …

Background Cancer end-of-life care (EoLC) policies assume people want to die at home.
We aimed to examine variations in preferences for place of death cross-nationally. Methods …

Background To identify factors influencing place of death among home palliative care
patients with advanced cancer, focusing on the timing of referrals from hospital to home care …

Scand J Caring Sci; 2011; 25; 627–636 Preference for place‐of‐death among terminally ill
cancer patients in Denmark Achieving home death is often seen as an important endpoint in …

Background Norway has one of the lowest home death rates in Europe. However, it is the
health authorities´ ambition to increase this by facilitating palliative care at home. The aim of …

Aim Associations between markedly low activities of daily living (ADL) at the start of home
visit care and patient home death were analyzed using data from a home care support clinic …

Background Studies show that most patients with advanced cancer prefer to die at home.
However, not all have equal chances and the evidence is unclear on whether dying at home …