Factors Affecting the Use of Hospice Care and Timing of Its Initiation: Comparing Single and Combined Hospice Users Among Korean Adult Cancer Decedents
Ohk Kyeong Min, Kyunghee Chae, Hyunjong Song · 2026
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Korean patients who die of cancer may use one kind of hospice care or combine several, and the mix shapes their final weeks. Min Ohk Kyeong and co-authors study who combines care and who starts early in a 2026 analysis of national records.
Among 19,334 hospice users in 2019 death records, about nineteen percent combined hospice types. Income, home region, hospital type, and cancer type all tracked with combining. Combined users also began hospice about twenty-six days earlier than single-type users. Early starters tended to be in their sixties, live in the capital, and carry several other illnesses. The authors argue that fair access to combined care should not depend on where a patient lives.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ohk Kyeong Min, Kyunghee Chae, Hyunjong Song |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |