2024
Use of Hospice and End-of-Life Care Quality Among Medical Centers with High Versus Lower Specialist Palliative Care Reach Among People with Heart Failure: An Observational Study
Feder S, Han L, Zhan Y, Abel E, Akgün K, Fried T, Ersek M, Redeker N. Use of Hospice and End-of-Life Care Quality Among Medical Centers with High Versus Lower Specialist Palliative Care Reach Among People with Heart Failure: An Observational Study. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2024 PMID: 39515377, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2024.0182.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSpecialist palliative careVeterans Affairs Medical CenterEnd of lifeCare qualityInpatient hospiceEnd of life outcomesUse of hospiceInpatient hospice careMedical CenterMultilevel logistic regressionFamilies of patientsAffairs Medical CenterHospice carePalliative careRetrospective cohort studyAdvanced heart failureBlack adultsHospiceCohort studyFacility rateLogistic regressionStudy outcomesObservational studyCareHeart failure
2022
Aggressive End-of-Life Care in the Veterans Health Administration versus Fee-for-Service Medicare among Patients with Advanced Lung Cancer
Presley CJ, Kaur K, Han L, Soulos PR, Zhu W, Corneau E, O'Leary JR, Chao H, Shamas T, Rose MG, Lorenz KA, Levy CR, Mor V, Gross CP. Aggressive End-of-Life Care in the Veterans Health Administration versus Fee-for-Service Medicare among Patients with Advanced Lung Cancer. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2022, 25: 932-939. PMID: 35363053, PMCID: PMC9360181, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2021.0436.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVeterans Health AdministrationEnd of lifeAggressive careLung cancerLife careMedicare beneficiariesAdvanced nonsmall cell lung cancerHealth AdministrationService MedicareNonsmall cell lung cancerLung cancer careAdvanced lung cancerCell lung cancerAggressive endHospice admissionCancer careConcurrent careCare availabilityCancer treatmentCareMedicareGreater declinePatientsCancerHospice
2017
Distressing Symptoms, Disability, and Hospice Services at the End of Life: Prospective Cohort Study
Gill TM, Han L, Leo‐Summers L, Gahbauer EA, Allore HG. Distressing Symptoms, Disability, and Hospice Services at the End of Life: Prospective Cohort Study. Journal Of The American Geriatrics Society 2017, 66: 41-47. PMID: 28895118, PMCID: PMC5777867, DOI: 10.1111/jgs.15041.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsProspective cohort studyEnd of lifeHospice admissionCohort studyDistressing symptomsHospice servicesMonths of lifeNumber of disabilitiesMedian durationSubsequent admissionHigh burdenMedicare claimsAdditional disabilitiesAdmissionAdditional monthsSymptomsOlder personsHospiceMonthly interviewsMonthsDisabilityShort durationAdditional strategiesDurationNew Haven