Table 3.
Types of cancer care in the last three months by geographical location (N = 792)
| Characteristics | Urban (N = 195) | Rural (N = 597) | P- value | Western (N = 162) | Central (N = 242) |
Eastern (N = 388) |
P - value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type of treatment (before doctors determined no further treatment to be provided), No. (%) | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||||
| Life-extending treatment | 124 (63.59) | 255 (42.71) | 90 (55.56) | 92 (38.02) | 197 (50.77) | ||
| Conservative treatment | 71 (36.41) | 317 (57.29) | 72(44.44) | 150(61.98) | 191 (49.23) | ||
| Health care utilization | |||||||
| Hospital (include hospice), No. (%) | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||||
| Yes | 179 (91.79) | 431 (72.19) | 139 (85.80) | 172 (71.07) | 299 (77.06) | ||
| No | 16 (8.21) | 166 (27.81) | 23 (14.20) | 70 (28.94) | 89 (22.94) | ||
| Per capita hospital admissions, mean (SD) | 2.13 (2.02) | 1.51 (1.62) | 0.00 | 2.02 (1.52) | 1.44 (1.43) | 1.66 (1.97) | 0.00 |
| Per capita hospital days, mean (SD) | 41.13 (30.00) | 23.49 (25.28) | 27.22 (22.23) | 25.24 (26.77) | 29.72 (29.90) | 0.00 | |
| Hospice care, No. (%) | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||||
| Yes | 24 (12.31) | 16 (2.68) | 18 (11.11) | 10 (4.13) | 12 (3.09) | ||
| No | 171 (87.69) | 538 (97.32) | 98 (88.89) | 232 (95.87) | 376 (96.81) | ||