Association of a Lay Health Worker Intervention With Symptom Burden, Survival, Health Care Use, and Total Costs Among Medicare Enrollees With Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Undertreated patient symptoms require approaches that improve symptom burden.

Objective

To determine the association of a lay health worker-led symptom screening and referral intervention with symptom burden, survival, health care use, and total costs among Medicare Advantage enrollees with a new diagnosis of solid or hematologic malignant neoplasms.

Design, setting, and participants

This quality improvement study conducted at 9 community oncology practices from November 1, 2016, to October 31, 2018, compared newly diagnosed Medicare Advantage enrollees with solid or hematologic malignant neoplasms with patients diagnosed and treated 1 year prior. Analysis was conducted from August 1, 2019, to January 11, 2020.

Interventions

Usual care augmented by a

SUBMITTER: Patel MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7076340 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature