Intensive end-of-life care in acute leukemia from a French national hospital database study (2017-2018).

Background: A better understanding of how the care of acute leukemia patients is managed in the last days of life would help clinicians and health policy makers improve the quality of end-of-life care. This study aimed: (i) to describe the intensity of end-of-life care among patients with acute leukemia who died in the hospital (2017-2018) and (ii) to identify the factors associated with the intensity of end-of-life care.

Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study of decedents based on data from the French national hospital database.