Specialist Palliative Care Use and End-of-Life Care in Patients With Metastatic Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Context

For patients with advanced cancer, high intensity treatment at the end of life is measured as a reflection of the quality of care. Use of specialist palliative care has been promoted to improve care quality, but whether its use is associated with decreased treatment intensity on a population-level is unknown.

Objectives

To determine whether receipt of specialist palliative care use is associated with differences in end-of-life quality metrics in patients with metastatic cancer.

Methods

Retrospective propensity-matched cohort of patients age ≥ 65 who died with metastatic cancer in U.S. hospitals with palliative care programs that participated in the National Palliative Care Registry in 2018-2019. Cox proportional hazards regression was used to assess the impact

SUBMITTER: Hua M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11032225 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature