作者
Alexander P Cole, David-Dan Nguyen, Akezhan Meirkhanov, Mehra Golshan, Nelya Melnitchouk, Stuart R Lipsitz, Kerry L Kilbridge, Adam S Kibel, Zara Cooper, Joel Weissman, Quoc-Dien Trinh
发表日期
2019/2/1
期刊
JAMA network open
卷号
2
期号
2
页码范围
e187633-e187633
出版商
American Medical Association
简介
Importance
It is not known whether racial/ethnic differences in receipt of palliative care are attributable to different treatment of minorities or lower utilization of palliative care at the relatively small number of hospitals that treat a large portion of minority patients.
Objective
To assess the association of receipt of palliative care among patients with metastatic cancer with receipt of treatment at minority-serving hospitals (MSHs) vs non-MSHs.
Design, Setting, and Participants
This retrospective cohort study used Participant Use Files of the National Cancer Database, a prospectively maintained, hospital-based cancer registry consisting of all patients treated at more than 1500 US hospitals, to collect data from individuals older than 40 years with metastatic prostate, lung, colon, and breast cancer, diagnosed from January 1, 2004, to December 31, 2015. Data were accessed in October 2017, and the analysis was performed in …
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