ArticleThe American journal of hospice & palliative care2021
Cost Savings Associated With Palliative Care Among Older Adults With Advanced Cancer.
Article in The American journal of hospice & palliative care, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05897229 (Palliative Care in Patients With COVID-19), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers.
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Palliative Care in Patients With COVID-19: Analysis of Costs of Hospitalization in Wards and Intensive Care Units
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15 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Patient autonomy versus family centric decision making in end-of-life care.Pakistan journal of medical sciences · 2025Article
- Public Perspectives on Palliative and Hospice Care: Social Media Content Analysis Using Topic Modeling and Multiclass Sentiment Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Impact of outpatient palliative care on healthcare costs in Germany - an analysis of cancer and non-cancer patients based on health insurance data.Health economics review · 2025Article
- Portable Medical Orders and Inpatient Cost at End of Life in Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Myelodysplastic Syndromes.JCO oncology practice · 2025Article
- Nurse led telephonic palliative care versus specialty outpatient palliative care: pragmatic, randomised clinical trial.BMJ medicine · 2025Article
- Specialized palliative outpatient clinic care involvement associated with decreased end-of-life hospital costs in cancer patients, a single center study.BMC palliative care · 2024Article
- Addressing financial hardship in malignant hematology and hematopoietic cell transplant: a team approach.Blood advances · 2024Article
- Costs of Palliative Care in Oncological and Non-Oncological Patients with Different Types of Ambulatory-Based Attention: Cost-Study Protocol.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Role of Palliative Care in the Supportive Management of AL Amyloidosis-A Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Association of Inpatient Palliative Care Consultation with Clinical and Financial Outcomes for Pancreatic Cancer.Annals of surgical oncology · 2024Article
- Palliative care and healthcare utilization among deceased metastatic lung cancer patients in U.S. hospitals.BMC palliative care · 2022Article
- Medical Costs of Palliative and Hospice Care versus Usual Care in Terminal Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Indian journal of palliative careReview
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Abstract
backgroundThere is inconsistent evidence that palliative care intervention decreases total healthcare expenditure at end-of-life for oncology patients. This inconsistent evidence may result from small sample sizes at single institution studies and disparate characterization of costs across studies. Comprehensive studies in population-based datasets are needed to fully understand the impact of palliative care on total healthcare costs. This study analyzed the impact of palliative care on total healthcare costs in a nationally representative sample of advanced cancer patients.
methodsWe conducted a matched cohort study among Medicare patients with metastatic lung, colorectal, breast and prostate cancers. We matched patients who received a palliative care consultation to similar patients who did not receive a palliative care consultation on factors related to both the receipt of palliative care and end of life costs. We compared direct costs between matched patients to determine the per-patient economic impact of a palliative care consultation.
resultsPatients who received a palliative care consultation experienced an average per patient cost of $5,834 compared to $7,784 for usual care patients (25% decrease; p < 0.0001). Palliative care consultation within 7 days of death decreased healthcare costs by $451, while palliative care consultation more than 4 weeks from death decreased costs by $4,643.
conclusionThis study demonstrates that palliative care has the capacity to substantially reduce healthcare expenditure among advanced cancer patients. Earlier palliative care consultation results in greater cost reductions than consultation in the last week of life.
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