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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2009 Jul 15;115(14):3302–3311. doi: 10.1002/cncr.24360

Table 5.

Association between THC and end-of-life care experiences

Characteristic THC score for
patients with
characteristic, mean
(SD)
THC score for
patients without
characteristic, mean
(SD)
P value
Care in the last week of life
Care in the Intensive Care
Unit (N=6)
46.5 (8.26) 55.5 (6.33) .002
Chemotherapy (N=4) 58.75 (2.5) 54.67 (6.89) .24
Use of a feeding tube (N=9) 54.25 (7.48) 54.92 (6.77) .78
Any aggressive treatment
(N=13)
55.64 (6.60) 54.72 (6.87) .66
Location of death
Intensive care unit (N=2) 52.00 (11.31) 54.92 (6.76) .55
Hospital (non-ICU, N=12) 50.08 (9.43) 55.59 (6.05) .07
Hospital (ICU and non-
ICU, N=14)
50.36 (9.25) 55.68 (5.96) .06
Home (N=64) 55.63 (6.01) 52.95 (8.26) .14
Home with outpatient
hospice (N=58)
55.37 (5.94) 53.92 (8.16) .38
Inpatient hospice (N=7) 53.94 (6.38) 54.93 (6.89) .71