What does "palliative care" represent in research using secondary data?
07/23/24 at 03:00 AM
What does "palliative care" represent in research using secondary data?
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management; by J. Brian Cassel; 7/18/24
While much research has been done regarding "palliative care" using retrospective cohort studies of large datasets, the data sources may not be capturing specialty palliative care services. This article aims to clarify what source data are used in such studies, how specialty palliative care services are determined to have been provided or not, and mismatches between the nature of the data and the interpretation of researchers.