Racial Disparities in End-of-Life Care Between Black and White Adults With Metastatic Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Context

The comfort of patients with cancer near the end of life (EOL) is often undermined by unnecessary and burdensome treatments. There is a need for more research examining racial disparities in EOL care, especially in regions with a history of racial discrimination.

Objectives

To examine whether black adults received more burdensome EOL care than white adults in a population-based data set of cancer decedents in Louisiana, a state with a history of slavery and long-standing racial disparities.

Methods

This was a retrospective analysis of EOL care from the Research Action for Health Network (REACHnet), a regional Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute-funded database. The sample consisted of 875 white and 415 black patients with metastatic cancer who died in

SUBMITTER: Perry LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8100959 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature