Where the final day is spent: patterns in place of death among U.S. adults with alcoholic liver cirrhosis, 1999–2023
Asad Ali Ahmed Cheema, Syed Sarmad Javaid, Fabeha Zafar, FNU Samina, Muhammad Sufian, Muhammad Hamza Saghir, Muhammad Zohaib Qasim, Zainab Pervaiz, Warda Nasir, Muhammad Hashir Khan, Ali Ghaffar, Hamza Bashir, Muhammad Shikaib Shabbir · 2026
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Cheema and colleagues chart where Americans dying of alcoholic liver cirrhosis spend their final day, using 25 years of national death records in 2026 health services research. Death certificates from 1999 through 2023 were analyzed for adults aged 25 and older. Place of death was sorted into hospital, home, hospice or nursing facility, and emergency or outpatient settings, then tested against demographic and geographic traits.
The records covered 302,815 deaths from alcoholic liver cirrhosis across the quarter century studied. Inpatient deaths fell from 65.2 percent in 1999 to 48.6 percent in 2023 of all deaths recorded. Home deaths climbed from 20.7 percent to 30.2 percent over the same span of years. Hospice and nursing deaths peaked at 23.7 percent in 2015 before easing back to 18.3 percent by the end. Men, minorities, and city residents remained likelier to die in institutional settings.
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| CREATOR | Asad Ali Ahmed Cheema, Syed Sarmad Javaid, Fabeha Zafar, FNU Samina, Muhammad Sufian, Muhammad Hamza Saghir, Muhammad Zohaib Qasim, Zainab Pervaiz, Warda Nasir, Muhammad Hashir Khan, Ali Ghaffar, Hamza Bashir, Muhammad Shikaib Shabbir |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |