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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2015 Apr 29;121(16):2840–2848. doi: 10.1002/cncr.29430

Table 3.

End of life outcomes in older patients with AML

Variable All Patients (n = 290)
n (frequency)

Cause of death
Disease 199 (68.6%)
Infection 39 (13.4%)
Treatment Complications 36 (12.4%)
Other 7 (2.4%)

Place of death
Home without hospice 49 (16.9%)
Hospice (home or facility) 64 (22.1%)
Hospital 177 (61.0%)

Received hospice services 67 (23.1%)

Hospice Length of Stay > 7 days 12 (6.1%)

Chemotherapy within 30 days of death 80 (49.4%)

Hospitalization within 30 days of death 144 (88.9%)

ICU admissions within 30 days of death 59 (36.4%)

ICU = Intensive Care Unit.