Table 3.

U.S. Region of Hospice Use by Cancer Reporting Facility Location.

	U.S. Region
Hospice Use	All Regions n=21,860	Northeast n=3481	Southeast n=5526	Midwest n=7846	Southwest n=1682	West n=3163
Ever Enrollment	15,369 (70.3)	2218 (63.9) reference	4209 (77.0) p<0.001	5477 (70.3) p<0.001	1207 (71.5) p<0.001	2191 (68.9) p<0.001
Hospice days, last month of life, mean (SE)	20 (11.6)	18.9 (0.25) reference	20.6 (0.18) p<0.001	19.1 (0.16) p=0.50	20.2 (0.33) p=0.001	20.4 (0.26) p<0.001
Enrollment last month of lifea	8125 (52.9)	1221 (55.6) reference	2117 (50.0) p<0.001	3009 (55.0) p=0.67	616 (51.0) p=0.01	1130 (51.8) p=0.01
Enrollment last 3 days of lifea	2253 (14.7)	389 (17.8) reference	518 (11.5) p<0.001	899 (16.0) p=0.06	163 (13.3) p=0.001	280 (12.9) p<0.001
Chemotherapy last 2 weeks of lifea	1341 (12.9)	220 (13.3) reference	286 (11.3) p=0.06	500 (12.8) p=0.56	105 (12.9) p=0.77	212 (12.9) p=0.68

Values are n(%) unless otherwise noted; Marginal effects at the means are reported using age, sex, race, marital status, income, FCI, CCI, year of cancer diagnosis, cancer stage and histology as covariates;

^a. Denominator is patients ever enrolled in hospice.

Abbreviations: SE= standard error; 162 patients from reporting facilities located in the Philippines, US Virgin Islands or Puerto Rico were excluded.