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
2020
Concurrent Hospice Care and Cancer-Directed Treatment for Advanced Lung Cancer and Receipt of Aggressive Care at the End of Life in the Veteran's Health Administration
Presley CJ, Han L, O'Leary JR, Zhu W, Corneau E, Chao H, Shamas T, Rose M, Lorenz K, Levy CR, Mor V, Gross CP. Concurrent Hospice Care and Cancer-Directed Treatment for Advanced Lung Cancer and Receipt of Aggressive Care at the End of Life in the Veteran's Health Administration. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2020, 23: 1038-1044. PMID: 32119800, PMCID: PMC7404822, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2019.0485.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNonsmall cell lung cancerVeterans Health AdministrationStage IV nonsmall cell lung cancerCancer-directed treatmentEnd of lifeAggressive careConcurrent careHealth AdministrationVHA facilitiesLung cancerHospice careConcurrent hospice careLung cancer careAdvanced lung cancerCell lung cancerMultilevel logistic regression modelsLogistic regression modelsPrimary outcomeCancer careHospice useStudy periodCareLast monthPatientsVeterans