End-of-Life Patient Care Survey from Japanese Physicians

437 end-of-life patient records from a survey of physicians in Japan. The data includes patient age, place of death, medical procedures like pain control and palliative care, and the presence of living wills. It was collected via a web-based questionnaire administered to physicians registered with the Japan Society For Dying With Dignity.

Use Cases

• Analyze the association between patient age and the odds of receiving pain control or palliative care using logistic regression.
• Compare the prevalence of living wills across different places of death, such as home, hospital, or nursing home.
• Investigate the relationship between the provision of palliative care and specific signs of death identified through factor analysis.
• Model the odds ratios for medical care interventions based on patient demographic factors like age group and sex.

Strengths

• Contains data on 437 end-of-life patients with a mean age of 79.4 years.
• Includes specific medical care variables: 225 patients received pain control and 278 received palliative care.
• Captures information on living wills, present for 172 patients in the dataset.
• Data sourced from physicians with expertise in end-of-life care, providing clinical relevance.

Limitations

• Small sample size of 437 patients limits statistical power for subgroup analyses.
• Data is from a single-country (Japan) survey, limiting generalizability to other healthcare systems.
• Relies on physician-reported data for one patient each, which may introduce recall or selection bias.

Provenance

Source

Web-based questionnaire administered to physicians registered with the Japan Society For Dying With Dignity.

Collection Method

Self-developed questionnaire where each physician shared data on one patient they had cared for.

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Geography

Japan