Background Most terminally ill cancer patients prefer to die at home, but a majority die in
institutional settings. Research questions about this discrepancy have not been fully …

Introduction An important element in end‐of‐life care advocacy is to meet patients' end‐of‐
life preferences. Most Scandinavian patients die in hospitals even though the majority …

Five palliative home care teams participated in a prospective Swedish study that included
221 palliative cancer patients. All patients with incurable malignant disease that were …

Background The wish to be cared for and to die at home is common among people with end-
stage cancer in the western world. However, home deaths are declining in many countries …

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 …

Objective Meeting the preferences of patients is considered an important palliative care
outcome. Prior studies reported that more than 80% of patients with terminally ill cancer …

Understanding the preferred place of death may assist to organize and deliver palliative
health care services. The study aims to assess preference for place of death among cancer …

Aim: This study aimed to explore clinical and care-related factors associated with fulfilling
cancer patients' preference for home death across four countries: Belgium (BE), the …

Objectives: Most terminally ill cancer patients prefer to die at home, yet only a minority are
able to achieve this. Our aim was to investigate the factors associated with cancer patients …

Background An important aspect of end-of-life care is the place of death. A majority of cancer
patients prefer home death to hospital death. At the same time, the actual location of death is …