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Association Of Palliative Care Consultation With Advance Directive Completion For Patients Admitted With An Acute Heart Failure Exacerbation, Michelle Crispo, Doug Sawyer, Kathleen Fairfield, Rebecca N. Hutchinson
Association Of Palliative Care Consultation With Advance Directive Completion For Patients Admitted With An Acute Heart Failure Exacerbation, Michelle Crispo, Doug Sawyer, Kathleen Fairfield, Rebecca N. Hutchinson
Journal of Maine Medical Center
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End-Of-Life Healthcare Use Of Medicare Patients With Melanoma Based On Patient Characteristics And Year Of Death, Rebecca N. Hutchinson, F. Lee Lucas, Kathleen Fairfield
End-Of-Life Healthcare Use Of Medicare Patients With Melanoma Based On Patient Characteristics And Year Of Death, Rebecca N. Hutchinson, F. Lee Lucas, Kathleen Fairfield
Journal of Maine Medical Center
Background: Many cancer patients receive overly-intensive care at end-of-life (EOL), despite recognition that this is a marker of poor quality. There is limited knowledge about care received by patients dying with melanoma.
Objective: We characterized healthcare utilization during EOL and patient characteristics associated with variations in care. We also described how utilization changed over time.
Methods: We used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare database to identify 9099 melanoma patients aged 65+ at diagnosis between 2000 and 2009, who died by 12/31/2010. We included patients enrolled in Medicare part A and B six-months prior to diagnosis and not in managed …