Trends in end-of-life care and health care spending in women with uterine cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

High-intensity care including hospitalizations, chemotherapy, and other interventions at the end of life is costly and often of little value for cancer patients. Little is known about patterns of end-of-life care and resource utilization for women with uterine cancer.

Objective

We examined the costs and predictors of aggressive end-of-life care for women with uterine cancer.

Study design

In this observational cohort study the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare linked database was used to identify women age ≥65 years who died from uterine cancer from 2000 through 2011. Resource utilization in the last month of life including ≥2 hospital admissions, >1 emergency department visit, ≥1 intensive care unit admission, or use of chemotherapy in th

SUBMITTER: Margolis B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5614877 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature