Intensity of end-of-life health care and mortality after systemic anti-cancer treatment in patients with advanced lung cancer

Table 3 The intensity of care in the final 30 days of life in deceased patients

Care measure	SACT (N = 376)		No-SACT (N = 279)		p^c
	N	%	N	%
Any hospitalization	237	63.0	110	39.4	< 0.001
Hospitalizations^a	186	49.5	99	35.5	< 0.001
Sepsis	42	11.2	11	3.9	0.0064
Bacterial infection	14	3.7	1	0.4	0.0352
Neutropenia	11	2.9	0	0.0	–
ED visit	187	49.7	87	31.2	< 0.001
ICU admission	49	13.0	36	12.9	0.99
SACT	72	19.1	–	–	–
RT	12	3.2	7	2.5	0.99
Composite of measures^b	263	69.9	122	43.7	< 0.001
All 5 (SC 4)	0	0.0	0	0.0
None	113	30.1	157	56.3	< 0.001

Abbreviations: SACT Systemic anti-cancer treatment, ED Emergency department, ICU Intensive care unit, RT Radiotherapy
^aHospitalizations without sepsis, bacterial infection or neutropenia
^bAny of the following outcomes: hospitalization, ED visit, ICU admission, SACT (except SC), or RT
^cTested by z-test with Bonferroni correction

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