Arjun Gupta, Emma D Chant, Supriya Mohile, Rachel I Vogel, Helen M Parsons, Anne H Blaes, Christopher M Booth, Gabrielle B Rocque, Stacie B Dusetzina, Ishani Ganguli
PURPOSE: Health care contact days-days spent receiving health care outside the home-represent an intuitive, practical, and person-centered measure of time consumed by health care. METHODS: We linked 2019 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey and traditional Medicare claims data for community-dwelling older adults with a history of cancer. We identified contact days (ie, spent in a hospital, emergency department, skilled nursing facility, or inpatient hospice or receiving ambulatory care including an office visit, procedure, treatment, imaging, or test) and described patterns of total and ambulatory contact days...
March 7, 2024: JCO oncology practice