Objectives: Published research in disparities in advance care planning, palliative, and end-
of-life care is limited. However, available data points to significant barriers to palliative and …

In this report, the authors provide comprehensive and up‐to‐date US data on disparities in
cancer occurrence, major risk factors, and access to and utilization of preventive measures …

Background: There is growing evidence of disparities in access to hospice and palliative
care services to varying degrees by sociodemographic groups. Underlying factors …

Importance The pool of studies examining ethnic and racial differences in hospice use and
end-of-life hospitalizations among patients with dementia is limited and results are …

Background Despite wide use of severity scoring systems for case-mix determination and
benchmarking in the intensive care unit (ICU), the possibility of scoring bias across …

Importance There are limited data on which factors affect the critical and complex decision to
withdraw life-supporting treatment (LST) in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) …

Background: Palliative care access, experiences and outcomes of care disadvantage those
from ethnically diverse, Indigenous, First nation and First people communities. Research into …

Background Sepsis is one of the most life-threatening circumstances for critically ill patients
in the United States, while diagnosis of sepsis is challenging as a standardized criteria for …

Background Integration of palliative care services into the surgical treatment plan is
important for holistic patient care. We sought to examine the association between patient …

Assisted living communities are the final home for many of their residents, most of whom are
older, frail, and cognitively or functionally impaired. Yet little is known about end-of-life care …