研究发现，临终关怀在美国和加拿大各不相同_BEC初级作文

研究发现，临终关怀在美国和加拿大各不相同

End-of-life care for older people with advanced lung cancer differs in the United States and in the Canadian province of Ontario, a new study says.

一项新的研究发现，美国和加拿大安大略省对患有晚期肺癌的老年人的临终关怀各不相同。

U.S. patients receive far more chemotherapy, while patients in Ontario make much more use of hospital and emergency room services, according to the analysis of data from the U.S. government and the Ontario Cancer Registry. The information was collected from people 65 and older who died from non-small-cell lung cancer between 1999 and 2003.

根据美国政府和安大略省癌症登记处的数据分析，美国患者接受更多的是化疗，而安大略省患者更多的是采取医院和急诊室救护设备。这些信息是从1999-2003年里65岁及以上因患非小细胞肺癌死亡的患者那里收集到的。

Health-care services were used extensively by patients in both countries, particularly in the last month of life. More than twice as many people in Ontario died in a hospital, even though most patients in Ontario have said they want to die at home, the study reported.

医疗保健设施在两个国家都被广泛应用，尤其是在生命中的最后一个月。在安大略省两倍以上的病人死于医院，尽管他们当中大部分人表示希望死在家里，研究报道。

Elderly people in both the United States and Canada receive government-financed health care, but there are differences in end-of-life coverage. In the United States, hospice care for qualified patients is covered by Medicare. Ontario has no hospice program comparable to what's available in the United States, but the province provides palliative care through hospital acute-care units, outpatient services and home health care.