Trajectories of Health Care Contact Days for Patients With Stage IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Patients with stage IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) experience substantial morbidity and mortality. Contact days (ie, the number of days with health care contact outside the home) measure how much of a person's life is consumed by health care, yet little is known about patterns of contact days for patients with NSCLC.

Objective

To describe the trajectories of contact days in patients with stage IV NSCLC and how trajectories vary by receipt of cancer-directed treatment in routine practice.

Design, setting, and participants

A retrospective, population-based decedent cohort study was conducted in Ontario, Canada. Participants included adults aged 20 years or older who were diagnosed with stage IV NSCLC (January 1, 2014, to December 31, 2017) and died (Ja

SUBMITTER: Gupta A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11002696 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature