Is palliative care support associated with better quality end-of-life care indicators for patients with advanced cancer? A retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to establish the association between timing and provision of palliative care (PC) and quality of end-of-life care indicators in a population of patients dying of cancer.

Setting

This study uses linked cancer patient data from the National Cancer Registry, the electronic medical record system used in primary care (SystmOne) and the electronic medical record system used within a specialist regional cancer centre. The population resided in a single city in Northern England.

Participants

Retrospective data from 2479 adult cancer decedents who died between January 2010 and February 2012 were registered with a primary care provider using the SystmOne electronic health record system, and cancer was certified as a cause of death, were included in t

SUBMITTER: Ziegler LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5829853 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature