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 |