More Severely Ill Children Die at Home
Posted on: Wednesday, 27 June 2007, 18:04 CDT
Children who die of a chronic illness are more likely to spend their final days at home compared to children who died two decades ago, says a U.S. study.
A majority of chronically ill children still die in hospitals, with African-American and Hispanic patients continuing to be less likely than white patients to die at home, according to the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Advances in medicine and technology are extending survival, as well as allowing medically fragile children to live at home, lead author Dr. Chris Feudtner, of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said in a statement.
The researchers analyzed national health records for 198,000 U.S. children, who died of complex chronic conditions.
Over 15 years, the proportion of chronically ill children dying at home increased significantly for each age group, from 4.9 percent to 7.3 percent among infants, from 17.9 percent to 30.7 percent for ages one to nine, and from 18.4 percent to 32.2 percent among 10- to 19-year-olds.
Source: United Press International
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