Table 3

Study reports of repeated end-of-life hospitalisations

Study	Patients, N	Type of cancer	Inclusion criteria	≥1 hospital admissions (%)	>14 days of hospitalisation (%)
Falchook et al 32	12 765	Lung	Patient <65 years	59.30
Wu et al 23	49 920	All	Palliative chemotherapy <6 months	22.8	42.3
Wu et al 23	49 920	All	Any chemotherapy	24.2	43.2
Wright et al 14	1146	All	Any	6.10
Wang et al 52	82 242	All	2005	14.00
Wang et al 52	82 242	All	2009	14.80
Cheung et al 31	107 253	All	Any	6.30
Amano et al 58	266	All	Early palliative care	3.70	54
Amano et al 58	266	All	SOC	9	8
Gonsalves et al 44	200	All	2002	6
Gonsalves et al 44	200	All	2008	16	38
Ho et al 37	227 161	All	1993	8.50
Ho et al 37	227 161	All	2003	7.50
Tang et al 28	242 530	All	Trend 2000–2006	14.2	44.4
Temel et al 36	46	NSCLC	Integrated palliative care	13
Earle et al 16	28 777	All	1993		12.50
Earle et al 16	28 777	All	1996		11.60