The Association between Individual Income and Aggressive End-of-Life Treatment in Older Cancer Decedents in Taiwan

Chih-Yuan Huang; Yeh-Ting Hung; Chun-Ming Chang; Shiun-Yang Juang; Ching-Chih Lee

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0116913

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The Association between Individual Income and Aggressive End-of-Life Treatment in Older Cancer Decedents in Taiwan

Chih-Yuan Huang ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Chih-Yuan Huang, Yeh-Ting Hung

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, No.2, Ming-Sheng Road, Dalin Town, Chiayi, 622, Taiwan (ROC)
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Yeh-Ting Hung ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Chih-Yuan Huang, Yeh-Ting Hung

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, No.2, Ming-Sheng Road, Dalin Town, Chiayi, 622, Taiwan (ROC)
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Chun-Ming Chang,

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, No.2, Ming-Sheng Road, Dalin Town, Chiayi, 622, Taiwan (ROC)
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Shiun-Yang Juang,

Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, No.2, Ming-Sheng Road, Dalin Town, Chiayi, 622, Taiwan (ROC)
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Ching-Chih Lee

* E-mail: hematcd@hotmail.com

Affiliations School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan, Department of Otolaryngology, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, No.2, Ming-Sheng Road, Dalin Town, Chiayi, 622, Taiwan (ROC)
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The Association between Individual Income and Aggressive End-of-Life Treatment in Older Cancer Decedents in Taiwan

Chih-Yuan Huang,
Yeh-Ting Hung,
Chun-Ming Chang,
Shiun-Yang Juang,
Ching-Chih Lee

Published: January 13, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116913

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