Racial and ethnic disparities in end-of-life care for patients with oesophageal cancer: death trends over time.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Given significant morbidity and mortality associated with oesophageal cancer, supportive, high-quality end-of-life care is critical. Most patients with advanced cancer prefer to die at home, but incongruence between preferred and actual place of death is common. Here, we examined trends and disparities in location of death among patients with oesophageal cancer.

Methods

Using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-Range Online Data for Epidemiologic Research database, we utilized multinomial logistic regression to assess associations between sociodemographic characteristics and location of death for patients with oesophageal cancer (n = 237,063). Additionally, we utilized linear regression models to evaluate the significance of changes in location of

SUBMITTER: Bajaj SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9904053 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature