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Table 4 – Factors associated with death in hospital (univariate and multivariate analyses)

From: Home hospitalization for palliative cancer care: factors associated with unplanned hospital admissions and death in hospital

Parameters

Categories

n

Crude OR

(95 %CI)

p

Adjusted OR1 (95 %-CI)

p

Sex

Women

Men

83

53

1

0.96 (0.48–1.91)

0.91

  

Age (/10 years)

 

136

0.82 (0.63–1.07)

0.15

0.89 (0.63–1.26)

0.51

Karnofsky index

≤ 30 %

> 30 %

79

57

1

2.02 (1.01–4.03)

0.046

1

2.04 (0.92–4.56)

0.08

Primary tumor site

Breast

Head and neck

Digestive

Gynecological

Lung

Urological

Sarcoma / other

40

26

20

15

14

11

8

1

0.78 (0.29–2.09)

0.74 (0.25–2.17)

0.79 (0.24–2.60)

0.90 (0.27–3.06)

0.75 (0.19–2.88)

0.54 (0.11–2.58)

1.0

  

Home

Patient home

Other

117

14

3.86 (1.02–14.6)

1

0.046

2.66 (0.64–11.1)

1

0.18

Marital status

Single

Other

40

89

1

0.66 (0.31–1.41)

0.29

  

Patient living alone

No

Yes

108

27

1

2.59 (1.07–6.29)

0.035

1

2.70 (1.01–7.2)

0.047

Caregiver at home

No

Yes

15

100

1

1.01 (0.34-3.00)

0.98

  

One or more children at home

No

Yes

112

22

1

3.55 (1.29–9.76)

0.014

1

3.86 (1.14–13.1)

0.003

Initial discharge from

Medical oncology dept.

Palliative care unit

82

54

1

1.03 (0.51–2.03)

0.95

  

Length of hospital stay before discharge

Per 10-day increment

136

1.20 (0.92–1.57)

0.17

1.19 (0.86–1.64)

0.30

Psycho-oncology consultation

No

Yes

99

36

1

2.04 (0.94–4.46)

0.07

1

1.80 (0.75–4.32)

0.19

Written advance directives

No

Yes

129

7

1

1.48 (0.32–6.90)

0.61

  

Preemptive prescription of end-life sedation

No

Yes

112

24

1

0.60 (0.24–1.48)

0.27

  
  1. 1) Multivariate regression model with 133 observations including the following variables: age, Karnofsky index, home, patient living alone and one or more children at home