Outpatient palliative care and end-of-life care intensity: Linking Massachusetts Cancer Registry with all-payer claims
02/01/25 at 03:05 AM
Outpatient palliative care and end-of-life care intensity: Linking Massachusetts Cancer Registry with all-payer claims
JNCI Cancer Spectrum; Nancy L Keating, Joel S Weissman, Alexi A Wright, Robert Wolf, Susan Gershman, Richard Knowlton, John Z Ayanian; 1/25
Early palliative care is associated with better outcomes for patients with advanced-stage cancers. Using a novel data linkage, we assessed outpatient palliative care use before death and its association with end-of-life care intensity and variation across eight provider networks. End-of-life care intensity varied across provider networks. Patients with palliative care visits had lower adjusted odds of receiving intensive end-of-life care ...