Table 2.

Associations Between Treatment Site and End-of-Life Medical Care

	Intensive Carea				Hospice Servicesb				Other EOL Carec
Treatment Site	No./Total	%	OR	95% CI	No./Total	%	OR	95% CI	No./Total	%	OR	95% CI
Yale Cancer Center	9/75	12.0	3.14	1.16-8.47d	37/75	49.3	0.52	0.29-0.92d	29/75	38.7	0.63	0.34-1.15
Simmons Comprehensive  Cancer Center	3/33	9.1	2.30	0.58-9.16	20/33	60.6	0.64	0.29-1.38	10/33	36.4	0.69	0.31-1.55
New Hampshire  Oncology-Hematology	0/66	0	– e	– e	50/66	75.8	1.66	0.85-3.24	16/66	24.2	1.24	0.63-2.45
Parkland Hospital	8/128	6.3	Ref	Ref	84/128	65.6	Ref	Ref	36/128	28.1	Ref	Ref

EOL indicates end of life; OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; Ref, referent category.

^aDefined as the receipt of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and/or mechanical ventilation followed by death in an intensive care unit.

^bIncluded patients who died either at home while receiving hospice services or in an inpatient hospice (n=40/191).

^cOther EOL care included inpatient hospital care (n=58; 5 patients received care in an intensive care unit and then were transferred to a hospital floor before death), home care without hospice services (n=20), and inpatient nursing home care (n=13).

^dP <.05 (significant).

^eNo cases.