[Conditions required for home death--analysis of nine outpatients received chemotherapy]

Although a cancer patient to die at home has been arranged much easier due to a change in homecare service environment, the patient to die at home is not always possible. In the present study, we reviewed an outpatient who received chemotherapy and eventually died. We analyzed a relationship between the locations of their death and factors which influenced their final places using medical records. With a total of nine dead patients, five patients died at either home or hospital close to their home. In order to prevent a death at University hospital, the following points were important: First, doctors should ask patients which location they want to die at the beginning of the terminal stage. Second, home care doctors should start visiting patients before the end-of-life.