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Table 3 Healthcare consumption in the last 3 months of life

From: Anti-tumor treatment and healthcare consumption near death in the era of novel treatment options for patients with melanoma brain metastases

 

Overall

N = 100

Systemic treatment in last 3 months

N = 72

No systemic treatment in last 3 months

N = 28

P-value

Mann–Whitney U

or X2

Number of days in hospital, median (range)

9 (0–38)

11 (1–38)

4 (0–30)

0.002

Patients visiting the ER, n (%)

64 (64%)

54 (75%)

10 (36%)

 < 0.001

Patients being hospitalized, n (%)

63 (63%)

54 (75%)

10 (36%)

 < 0.001

Number of days admitted, median (range)

3 (0–34)

4 (0–34)

0 (0–25)

0.008

Days between last hospital visit and death, median (range) a

18 (0–88)

15 (0–81)

38 (0–88)

0.003

  1. aIn patients that visited the hospital in the last 3 months of life (n = 9)