Community-based palliative care (CBPC) serves seriously ill individuals by integrating care
for symptom and stress relief with local health care systems. This review provides the first …

Advance care directives (ACDs) are instructions regarding what types of medical treatments
a patient desires and/or who they would like to designate as a healthcare surrogate to make …

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 …

Objectives Estimate mortality, cost, and health care resource utilization for Medicare
beneficiaries aged≥ 65 years who suffered a primary Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) …

Background At the end of life, formal care costs are high. Informal care (IC) costs, and their
effects on outcomes, are not known. This study aimed to determine the IC costs for older …

Background Medicare cancer expenditures in the last month of life have increased.
Aggressive cancer care at the end-of-life (ACEOL) is considered poor quality care. We used …

Objective This study aims to quantify medical care utilisation, and to describe the cost
trajectories of individuals with advanced illnesses in the last-year of life, differentiated by …

Background Watch and wait (WW) protocols have gained increasing popularity for patients
diagnosed with locally advanced rectal cancer and presumed complete clinical response …

Introduction: Little is known about inpatient outcomes across the Parkinson disease (PD)
trajectory, or whether hospitalizations occurring in the last 6 months of life differ from earlier …

Background: Care costs rise towards the end of life. International comparison of service use,
costs and care experiences can inform quality and improve access. Aim: The aim of this …