Development of dynamic health care delivery heatmaps for end-of-life cancer care: a cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Measures of variation in end-of-life (EOL) care intensity across hospitals are typically summarised using unidimensional measures. These measures do not capture the full dimensionality of complex clinical care trajectories over time that are needed to inform quality improvement efforts. The objective is to develop a novel visual map of EOL care trajectories that illustrates multidimensional utilisation over time.

Setting

United States' National Cancer Institute or National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCI/NCCN)-designated hospitals.

Participants

We identified Medicare claims for fee-for-service beneficiaries with poor prognosis cancers who died between April and December 2016 and received the preponderance of treatment in the last 6 months of life at an NCI

SUBMITTER: Khayal IS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9121487 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature