Contemporary Patterns of End-of-Life Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Advanced Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Considerable efforts have been dedicated to improving the quality of end-of-life care among patients with advanced cancer in the past decade. Whether the quality has shifted in response to these efforts remains unknown.

Objective

To examine contemporary patterns of end-of-life care among patients with advanced cancer.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study used a recent linkage of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results and Medicare data to characterize patterns of end-of-life care. The cohort included fee-for-service Medicare decedents aged 66 years or older who were originally diagnosed with distant-stage breast, prostate, pancreatic, or lung cancers and died between 2014 and 2019. Analyses were conducted between June 1, 202

SUBMITTER: Kwon Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11846012 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature