The place of final care for patients with terminal illness is influenced more by resource
availability than patient choice. Resources are not consistently available across the UK to …

Aim To explore what factors influence decisions around the place of care for terminally ill
cancer patients in a rural area in West Highland, Scotland. Design This was a descriptive …

For patients dying of cancer, there is an emphasis on giving choice regarding preferred
location for care, with the option of dying at home, which is integral to UK government health …

Aims: To describe changes in the place of death of patients with cancer from 1990 to 2012,
and to identify issues for their end-of-life care. Materials and Methods: Population-based …

Objective: A 3-year review of the place of death of patients from a private oncology unit in
Cape Town explores the length of time patients spent in acute care hospital beds, under the …

Research on the distribution of cancer deaths by setting—hospital, hospice, home, other—is
longstanding, but has been given fresh impetus in the UK by policy commitments to increase …

Background Most patients with cancer prefer to die at home but the majority die in
institutions. Aim To determine place of death for patients with cancer in Belfast, to examine …

Although studies have found that 50–70% of cancer patients would prefer to die at home,
there has been a trend towards the hospitalization of the dying in many countries. No study …

Background: It is commonly written that more patients wish to die at home than currently
achieve this. However, the evidence for preferences for place of terminal care and death has …

Objective The primary objective of the study was to determine the relative importance of
place of death to patients with advanced cancer being treated at a cancer centre in England …