End-of-life outcomes with or without early palliative care: a propensity score matched, population-based cancer cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate whether cancer decedents who received palliative care early (ie, >6 months before death) and not-early had different risk of using hospital care and supportive home care in the last month of life.

Design/setting

We identified a population-based cohort of cancer decedents between 2004 and 2014 in Ontario, Canada using linked administrative data. Analysis occurred between August 2017 to March 2019.

Participants

We propensity-score matched decedents on receiving early or not-early palliative care using billing claims. We created two groups of matched pairs: one that had Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) home care assessments in the exposure period (Yes-RAI group) and one that did not (No-RAI group) to control for confounders uniquely availabl

SUBMITTER: Seow H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7883853 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature