Malnutrition, thyroid cancer result in high rates of death among home care, hospice patients, studies finds

Malnutrition, thyroid cancer result in high rates of death among home care, hospice patients, studies finds 
McKnights Home Care, by Adam Healy; 4/5/24 
Two separate studies analyzing disparities in patients’ place of death revealed high death rates related to malnutrition and thyroid cancer among patients receiving care at home and in hospice. The first study, “Disparities in Place of Death Among Malnourished Individuals in the United States,” found that more than 31,000 malnutrition-related deaths occurred among home care and hospice patients between 1999 and 2020. ... Another study, “Disparities in the Place of Death for Patients With Malignant Neoplasms of the Thyroid Gland,” discovered that roughly half of all patients who died of thyroid cancer between 1999 and 2020 did so in home care or hospice.