Researchers studied the final days of over 2,000 terminal cancer patients in Japan, comparing roughly 1500 patients receiving hospital-based palliative care and 500 receiving home-based palliative care.
Published in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, researchers suggest that patients who died at home lived “significantly longer” than patients who died in hospitals, even after adjusting for patients’ demographic and clinical characteristics.
Full article at: Global News