1 40 1 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Citation List Month Backlog URL Address <a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/s0748-7983(97)80009-1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://doi.org/10.1016/s0748-7983(97)80009-1</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Medical care utilization by incurable cancer patients in a Swedish county Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available European Journal Of Surgical Oncology Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1997 Subject The topic of the resource Female; Humans; Male; Adult; Aged; Middle Aged; Outcome Assessment (Health Care); Residence Characteristics; Hospitals; Hospital/utilization; 80 and over; retrospective studies; Hospitalization/statistics & numerical data; Sweden/epidemiology; Patient Admission/statistics & numerical data; Breast Neoplasms/therapy; County; Gastrointestinal Neoplasms/therapy; Length of Stay/statistics & numerical data; Marriage; Neoplasms/drug therapy/radiotherapy/surgery/therapy; Palliative Care/statistics & numerical data/utilization; Prostatic Neoplasms/therapy; Surgery Department; Terminal Care/statistics & numerical data/utilization; Urologic Neoplasms/therapy Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Axelsson B; Christensen SB Description An account of the resource A retrospective study of patients with cancer diagnoses treated at a Swedish county hospital was carried out in order to analyse medical care utilization by incurable cancer patients. All 208 patients customarily treated at the Department of General Surgery in Ostersund Hospital for cancer diagnoses during 1 year were included in the study. The main outcome measures were: number of institutional days; admissions; duration of terminal hospitalization. The Department of General Surgery supplied 7570 of all 12,276 (62%) institutional days needed throughout the disease course. The terminal hospitalization (i.e. the period of continuous institutional care ending with the death of the patient) constituted 39% of all institutional days. The duration of the terminal hospitalization seemed to be unrelated to various diagnoses and demographic variables. Patients with cancer of the breast utilized most institutional days/patient (median 80 institutional days) during the disease course. Married patients and patients living within a 40 km radius of the hospital spent significantly more days at the Department of General Surgery during the last 6 months of life than did the unmarried and those living further afield. 1997 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/s0748-7983(97)80009-1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">10.1016/s0748-7983(97)80009-1</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Article information provided for research and reference use only. PedPalASCNET does not hold any rights over the resource listed here. All rights are retained by the journal listed under publisher and/or the creator(s). Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article 1997 80 And Over Adult Aged Axelsson B Backlog Breast Neoplasms/therapy Christensen SB County European Journal Of Surgical Oncology Female Gastrointestinal Neoplasms/therapy Hospital/utilization Hospitalization/statistics & numerical data Hospitals Humans Journal Article Length Of Stay/statistics & Numerical Data Male Marriage Middle Aged Neoplasms/drug therapy/radiotherapy/surgery/therapy Outcome Assessment (health Care) Palliative Care/statistics & numerical data/utilization Patient Admission/statistics & numerical data Prostatic Neoplasms/therapy Residence Characteristics Retrospective Studies Surgery Department Sweden/epidemiology Terminal Care/statistics & numerical data/utilization Urologic Neoplasms/therapy