. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 15.

Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2017 Oct 10;124(2):426–433. doi: 10.1002/cncr.31047

Table 2.

Hospice Use and Cancer Treatment Received.

	All Patients n=21,860
Ever Enrollment	15369 (70.3)
Hospice days^a, median (IQR)	27 (8–76)
Timing of Hospice Enrollment^a
Cancer diagnosis to enrollment, days, mean (SD)	183 (±256)
Last month of life	8125 (52.9)
Last three days of life	2253 (14.7)
Days per patient, last month of life, mean (SD)	20 (±12)
Cancer Treatments Received^a
Radiation therapy	5621 (36.6)
Chemotherapy	7530 (49.0)
Last 4 weeks of life	1514 (9.9)
Last 2 weeks of life	595 (3.9)

Values are n(%) unless otherwise stated;

. Denominator= patients enrolled in hospice;

Abbreviations: IQR= Intra-quartile range and SD= standard deviation.