Disparities in hospice enrollment timing and end-of-life care intensity across non-cancer

A 10-year retrospective cohort study of 5,127 non-cancer decedents at a tertiary hospital in Taiwan from 2010 to 2019. The research examined diagnosis-specific patterns in hospice use and care intensity, including an aggressive-care score based on five end-of-life indicators. The dataset was created by Chun-Li Wang and shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing disparities in hospice enrollment timing based on diagnosis groups mentioned in the study.
• Modeling factors associated with high aggressive-care scores using variables like diagnosis and hospice enrollment.
• Benchmarking end-of-life care intensity across non-cancer populations using the composite aggressive-care score.
• Informing policies for equitable hospice access based on cross-diagnosis assessment of care patterns.

Strengths

• Contains data from 5,127 patient records over a 10-year period (2010-2019).
• Uses a defined composite outcome measure (aggressive-care score 0-5) based on five specific clinical indicators.
• Provides diagnosis-specific analysis across non-cancer conditions such as advanced heart disease and end-stage renal disease.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is from a single tertiary referral hospital in Taiwan, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Chun-Li Wang.

Collection Method

Retrospective cohort study of hospital records.

Time Range

2010 to 2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 03:30:32; freshness should be verified.

Geography

A tertiary referral hospital in Taiwan.