ArticleJournal of community health2014
Disparities in end of life care for elderly lung cancer patients.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Naming racism as a root cause of inequities in palliative care research: a scoping review.BMC palliative care · 2024Article
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- Factors Affecting Hospice Use Among Adolescents and Young Adult Cancer Patients.Journal of adolescent and young adult oncology · 2023Article
- Rural-Urban Disparities in Cancer Outcomes: Opportunities for Future Research.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2022Review
- A Decade of Studying Drivers of Disparities in End-of-Life Care for Black Americans: Using the NIMHD Framework for Health Disparities Research to Map the Path Ahead.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2022Review
- Racial Disparities in End-of-Life Care Between Black and White Adults With Metastatic Cancer.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2021Article
- Family perceptions of quality of end of life in LGBTQ+ individuals: a comparative study.Palliative care and social practice · 2021Article
- Race and Ethnicity and Satisfaction With Communication in the Intensive Care Unit.The American journal of hospice & palliative care · 2020Article
- Goals-of-Care Consultations Are Associated with Lower Costs and Less Acute Care Use among Propensity-Matched Cohorts of African Americans and Whites with Serious Illness.Journal of palliative medicine · 2020Article
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- Measuring racial segregation in health system networks using the dissimilarity index.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2019Article
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Abstract
The objective of this study was to examine geographic and race/ethnic disparities in access to end of life care among elderly patients with lung cancer. The study sample consisted of 91,039 Medicare beneficiaries with lung cancer who died in 2008. The key outcome measures included the number of emergency room visits, the number of inpatient admissions and the number of intensive care unit (ICU) days in the last 90 days of life, hospice care ever used and hospice enrollment within the last 3 days of life. Medicare beneficiaries with lung cancer residing in rural, remote rural, and micropolitan areas had more ER visits in the last 90 days of life as compared to urban residents. Urban residents however, had more ICU days in the last 90 days of life and were more likely to have ever used hospice as compared to residents of rural, remote rural and micropolitan counties. Racial minority lung cancer patients had more ICU days, ER visits and inpatient days than non-Hispanic White patients, and also were less likely to have ever used hospice care or be enrolled in hospice in the last 3 days of life. Lung cancer patients with very low socioeconomic status (SES) were less likely to ever use hospice or be enrolled in hospice care in the last 3 days of life, as compared to those who had very high SES. Geographic, racial and socioeconomic disparities in end of life care call for targeted efforts to address access barriers for these groups of patients.
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