Dying from cancer or other chronic diseases in the Netherlands: ten-year trends derived from death certificate data
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>For the further development of palliative care, it is relevant to gain insight into trends in non-acute mortality. The aim of this article is twofold: (a) to provide insight into ten-year trends in the characteristics of patients who...
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| author | Hingstman Lammert Francke Anneke L van der Velden Lud FJ Willems Dick L |
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| description | <p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>For the further development of palliative care, it is relevant to gain insight into trends in non-acute mortality. The aim of this article is twofold: (a) to provide insight into ten-year trends in the characteristics of patients who died from cancer or other chronic diseases in the Netherlands; (b) to show how national death statistics, derived from physicians' death certificates, can be used in this type of investigations.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Secondary analysis of data from 1996 to 2006 on the "primary" or "underlying" cause of death from official death certificates filled out by physicians and additional data from 2003 to 2006 on the place of death from these certificates.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Of the 135,000 people who died in the Netherlands in 2006, 77,000 (or 57%) died from a chronic disease. Cancer was the most frequent cause of death (40,000). Stroke accounted for 10,000 deaths, dementia for 8,000 deaths and COPD and heart failure each accounted for 6,000 deaths. Compared to 1996, the number of people who died from chronic diseases has risen by 6%.</p> <p>Of all non-acute deaths, almost three quarters were at least 70 years old when they died. Almost one third of the people died at home (31%), 28% in a hospital, 25% in a nursing home and 16% somewhere else.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Further investments to facilitate dying at home are desirable. Death certificate data proved to be useful to describe and monitor trends in non-acute deaths. Advantages of the use of death certificate data concern the reliability of the data, the opportunities for selection on the basis of the ICD-10, and the availability and low cost price of the data.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f0774f9400bd46e99cc6c265e0cf70122022-12-21T21:04:11ZengBMCBMC Palliative Care1472-684X2009-02-0181410.1186/1472-684X-8-4Dying from cancer or other chronic diseases in the Netherlands: ten-year trends derived from death certificate dataHingstman LammertFrancke Anneke Lvan der Velden Lud FJWillems Dick L<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>For the further development of palliative care, it is relevant to gain insight into trends in non-acute mortality. The aim of this article is twofold: (a) to provide insight into ten-year trends in the characteristics of patients who died from cancer or other chronic diseases in the Netherlands; (b) to show how national death statistics, derived from physicians' death certificates, can be used in this type of investigations.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Secondary analysis of data from 1996 to 2006 on the "primary" or "underlying" cause of death from official death certificates filled out by physicians and additional data from 2003 to 2006 on the place of death from these certificates.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Of the 135,000 people who died in the Netherlands in 2006, 77,000 (or 57%) died from a chronic disease. Cancer was the most frequent cause of death (40,000). Stroke accounted for 10,000 deaths, dementia for 8,000 deaths and COPD and heart failure each accounted for 6,000 deaths. Compared to 1996, the number of people who died from chronic diseases has risen by 6%.</p> <p>Of all non-acute deaths, almost three quarters were at least 70 years old when they died. Almost one third of the people died at home (31%), 28% in a hospital, 25% in a nursing home and 16% somewhere else.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Further investments to facilitate dying at home are desirable. Death certificate data proved to be useful to describe and monitor trends in non-acute deaths. Advantages of the use of death certificate data concern the reliability of the data, the opportunities for selection on the basis of the ICD-10, and the availability and low cost price of the data.</p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-684X/8/4 |
| spellingShingle | Hingstman Lammert Francke Anneke L van der Velden Lud FJ Willems Dick L Dying from cancer or other chronic diseases in the Netherlands: ten-year trends derived from death certificate data BMC Palliative Care |
| title | Dying from cancer or other chronic diseases in the Netherlands: ten-year trends derived from death certificate data |
| title_full | Dying from cancer or other chronic diseases in the Netherlands: ten-year trends derived from death certificate data |
| title_fullStr | Dying from cancer or other chronic diseases in the Netherlands: ten-year trends derived from death certificate data |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dying from cancer or other chronic diseases in the Netherlands: ten-year trends derived from death certificate data |
| title_short | Dying from cancer or other chronic diseases in the Netherlands: ten-year trends derived from death certificate data |
| title_sort | dying from cancer or other chronic diseases in the netherlands ten year trends derived from death certificate data |
| url | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-684X/8/4 |
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