Abstract:Purpose
Patients with primary or metastatic brain tumors often require intensive end-of-life care, for which place of death may serve as a quality metric. Death at home or hospice are considered a more ‘ideal’ location. Comprehensive information on place of death of people with brain tumors is lacking.
Methods
Using CDC Wonder Database data, those who died in the U.S. from a solid cancer from 2003 to 2016 were included and place of death for those with primary brain, brain metastases, and solid non-brain tum… Show more
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