Trial reportAge and ageing2021
Patients' preferred place of death: patients are willing to consider their preferences, but someone has to ask them.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Reasons for patients in high income countries accessing hospital care while receiving specialist community palliative care: A systematic review and meta-ethnography.Palliative medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Instability in End-of-Life Goals and Preferences of Patients Who Are Seriously Ill: A Systematic Review.JAMA network open · 2025Pooled it
- Exploring the factors that prevent or facilitate palliative care at 'home' for adults experiencing structural vulnerability: a scoping review.International journal for equity in health · 2026Article
- Preferences for end-of-life care in geriatric trauma surgery patients with immobilising fractures - a prospective cohort study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Co-creating end-of-life choices education: A process description of a program to explore community death-literacy in preparation for voluntary assisted dying.Palliative care and social practice · 2026Article
- Provision of palliative care for patients with advanced dementia across various long-term care settings in Japan: a facility-based survey.Journal of rural medicine : JRM · 2026Article
- Reasons why palliative and terminally ill patients do not die at home with end-of-life home care or in a hospice, but in the hospital: a single-centre study.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
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- Trust in Physicians and End-of-Life Discussions and Preferences for Place of Care Among US Chinese Older Adults.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025Article
- Factors affecting the place of death in patients with liver cancer in China, 2013-2020: A population-based study.Cancer pathogenesis and therapy · 2025Article
- Patients' Experiences With Advance Care Planning and Decision-Making: An Interview Study in Finnish Hospital Palliative Care Wards.Nursing open · 2025Article
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- Social, health and lifestyle-related determinants of older adults' preferences for place of death in South Tyrol, Italy - a cross-sectional survey study.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Predicting place of death of patients with advanced cancer receiving home-based palliative care services in Iran.BMC palliative care · 2024Article
- End-of-Life Care Preferences of Patients with Advanced Urological Malignancies: An Explorative Survey Study at a Tertiary Referral Center.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2024Article
- "You can't die here": an exploration of the barriers to dying-in-place for structurally vulnerable populations in an urban centre in British Columbia, Canada.BMC palliative care · 2024Article
- Factors Related to the Choice of Place of Death in Deceased Patients due to Cancer from 2011 to 2017 with Hospitalization Background in Firoozgar Hospital.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2024Article
- End of Life Events and Causes of Death in Danish Long-Lived Siblings: Reduced Dementia Risk Compared to Sporadic Long-Livers.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2024Article
- Disparities in testicular cancer incidence, mortality, and place of death trends from 1999 to 2020: A comprehensive cohort study.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Hospital-service use in the last year of life by patients aged ⩾60 years who died of heart failure or cardiomyopathy: A retrospective linked data study.Palliative medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundend-of-life care is not always in line with end-of-life preferences, so patients do not always die at their preferred place of death (PPD). This study aims to identify factors associated with patients' PPD and changes in PPD.
methodswe prospectively collected data on PPD at four time points within 6 months from 230 acutely hospitalised older patients who were part of the control group in a stepped-wedge randomised controlled trial. Associations between patient characteristics and preferences were calculated using multivariable (multinomial) logistic regression analysis.
resultsthe mean age of participants was 80.7 years. 47.8% of the patients had no PPD at hospital admission. Patients previously admitted to hospital preferred to die at home (home versus no preference: odds ratio [OR] 2.38, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.15-4.92; home versus healthcare facility: OR 3.25, 95% CI 1.15-9.16). Patients with more chronic diseases preferred the healthcare facility as their PPD (healthcare facility versus no preference: OR 1.33, 95% CI 1.09-1.61; healthcare facility versus home: OR 1.21, 95% CI 1.00-1.47). 32 of 65 patients changed their preference during follow-up, and most of these had no PPD at hospital admission (home versus no preference: OR 0.005, 95% CI ≤0.001-0.095) and poorer self-rated well-being (OR 1.82, 95% CI 1.07-3.08).
conclusionsalmost half of the patients had no PPD at baseline. Previous hospital admission, having more chronic diseases and living alone are associated with having a PPD. Introducing PPD could make older people aware of PPD and facilitate optimal palliative care.
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