End-of-life quality metrics among medicare decedents at minority-serving cancer centers: A retrospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We calculated the performance of National Cancer Institute (NCI)/National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) cancer centers' end-of-life (EOL) quality metrics among minority and white decedents to explore center-attributable sources of EOL disparities.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study of Medicare beneficiaries with poor-prognosis cancers who died between April 1, 2016 and December 31, 2016 and had any inpatient services in the last 6 months of life. We attributed patients' EOL treatment to the center at which they received the preponderance of EOL inpatient services and calculated eight risk-adjusted metrics of EOL quality (hospice admission ≤3 days before death; chemotherapy last 14 days of life; ≥2 emergency department (ED) visits; intensive ca

SUBMITTER: Wasp GT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7050066 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature