Long Vu, Siran M Koroukian, Sara L Douglas, Hannah L Fein, David F Warner, Nicholas K Schiltz, Jennifer Cullen, Cynthia Owusu, Martha Sajatovic, Johnie Rose, Richard Martin
BACKGROUND: There is a dearth of studies evaluating the utility of reporting prognostication among nursing home (NH) residents with cancer. OBJECTIVE: To study factors associated with documented less than six-month prognosis, and its relationship with end-of-life (EOL) care quality measures among residents with cancer. METHODS: The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results linked with Medicare, and the Minimum Data Set databases was used to identify 20,397 NH residents in the United States with breast, colorectal, lung, pancreatic, or prostate cancer who died between July 2016 and December 2018...
2024: Palliative medicine reports