Impact of Awareness of Terminal Illness and Use of Palliative Care or Intensive Care Unit on the Survival of Terminally Ill Patients With Cancer: Prospective Cohort Study

• Published in: Journal of clinical oncology Vol. 29; no. 18; pp. 2474 - 2480
• Main Authors: Yun, Young Ho, Lee, Myung Kyung, Kim, Seon Young, Lee, Woo Jin, Jung, Kyung Hae, Do, Young Rok, Kim, Samyong, Heo, Dae Seog, Choi, Jong Soo, Park, Sang Yoon, Jeong, Hyun Sik, Kang, Jung Hun, Kim, Si-Young, Ro, Jungsil, Lee, Jung Lim, Park, Sook Ryun, Park, Sohee
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Society of Clinical Oncology 20.06.2011
• Subjects: Aged; Attitude to Death; Cancer Care Facilities - statistics & numerical data; Cohort Studies; Critical Care - psychology; Female; Hospitals, University - statistics & numerical data; Humans; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Male; Middle Aged; Neoplasms - psychology; Neoplasms - therapy; Palliative Care - psychology; Proportional Hazards Models; Prospective Studies; Republic of Korea - epidemiology; Surveys and Questionnaires; Terminal Care - methods; Terminal Care - psychology; Terminally Ill - psychology; Truth Disclosure; Republic of Korea

We conducted this study to evaluate the validity of the perception that awareness of their terminal prognosis and use of palliative care or nonuse of an intensive care unit (ICU) causes patients to die sooner than they would otherwise. In this prospective cohort study at 11 university hospitals and...