Incidence of Aggressive End-of-Life Care Among Older Adults With Metastatic Cancer Living in Nursing Homes and Community Settings.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Nearly 10% of the 1.5 million persons residing in nursing homes (NHs) have received or will receive a diagnosis of cancer. Although aggressive end-of-life (EOL) care is common among community-dwelling patients with cancer, little is known about such patterns of care among NH residents with cancer.

Objective

To compare markers of aggressive EOL care between older adults with metastatic cancer who are NH residents and their community-dwelling counterparts.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database linked with the Medicare database and the Minimum Data Set (including NH clinical assessment data) for deaths occurring from January 1, 2013, to December 31, 2017, among 146 329 older patients w

SUBMITTER: Koroukian SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9947721 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature