节假日,生日和推迟癌症死亡
1Comprehensive Cancer Center and Center for Biostatistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus 43210, USA. young-8@medctr.osu.edu
JAMA
|December 23, 2004
概括
这项研究没有发现证据表明癌症患者将死亡推迟到假日或生日. 虽然一些子组显示了微小的变化,总的来说",死亡休假"效应在统计学上并不显著.
科学领域:
- 医学研究 医学研究
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 达纳图学 (Thanatology) 是一种学术学科.
背景情况:
- 事证据和流行的信仰表明,个人可能会推迟死亡,以超越重要的事件.
- 之前的研究就此产生了不同的结果.
- 死亡需要假期.
- 这是一个现象,特别是在癌症患者中.
研究的目的:
- 为了调查该事件的发生.
- 死亡需要假期.
- 在圣诞节,感恩节和生日期间,癌症患者会受到这种影响.
- 为了确定这些事件之前癌症死亡是否有统计学上显著的减少.
主要方法:
- 在俄俄州 (1989-2000年) 超过120万个人的死亡证明数据的分析.
- 专注于309,221例癌症死亡的主要原因.
- 使用精确的二项式测试来比较关键事件之前和之后的死亡比例.
主要成果:
- 在圣诞节,感恩节或生日前一周,没有观察到癌症死亡的显著减少.
- 在黑人中感恩节前一周,癌症死亡人数显著增加 (P = .01).
- 妇女在生日前癌症死亡的统计学上显著增加 (P = .05).
结论:
- 该研究发现没有总体证据支持这一说法.
- 死亡需要假期.
- 在癌症患者中产生效果.
- 虽然特定的人口群体在死亡率上表现出轻微的时间变化,但这些并没有表明在重大事件中推迟死亡的广泛能力.
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