Prevalence of co-occurring serious illness diagnoses and association with health care utilization at the end of life.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

End-of-life care differs by serious illness diagnosis. Cancer and dementia are serious illnesses that have been associated with less intensive end-of-life health care use. It is not known how health care utilization varies in the presence of >1 serious illness.

Methods

We used the Rochester Epidemiology Project to identify persons living in a midwestern area who died on July 1, 2017-June 30, 2018 at age ≥65 years, and were seriously ill. We examined the number of emergency department (ED), hospital, and intensive care unit (ICU) stays in the last 6 months and the last 30 days of life. We used Poisson regression to determine the incidence rate ratio for ED, hospital, and ICU stay in the last 6 months and 30 days of life by number of serious illness diagnoses. For

SUBMITTER: Nothelle S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9489605 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature