Patterns of Symptom Management Medication Receipt at End-of-Life Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Lung Cancer
Saphire ML, Prsic E, Canavan ME, Wang SJ, Presley CJ, Davidoff AJ. Patterns of Symptom Management Medication Receipt at End-of-Life Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Lung Cancer. Journal Of Pain And Symptom Management 2019, 59: 767-777.e1. PMID: 31778783, PMCID: PMC7338983, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.11.015.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNausea/vomitingMedication receiptEnd of lifeLung cancerOutpatient settingOlder adultsEnd Results-Medicare databaseEmotional distressPoor patient-provider communicationReceipt of medicationSymptom management medicationsHigh symptom burdenAge 67 yearsPatient demographic characteristicsMultivariable logistic regressionPatient-provider communicationMedicare hospice benefitOutpatient medicationsConcurrent therapyRetrospective cohortSymptom burdenSymptomatic managementHospice enrollmentSymptom managementD claimsPatterns of palliative symptom management (PSM) medication use at end-of-life (EoL) among Medicare beneficiaries with advanced lung cancer (advLC).
Davidoff A, Prsic E, Saphire M, Canavan M, Wang S, McCorkle R, Presley C. Patterns of palliative symptom management (PSM) medication use at end-of-life (EoL) among Medicare beneficiaries with advanced lung cancer (advLC). Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2019, 37: 130-130. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2019.37.27_suppl.130.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMedication useEoL-1Medication receiptPoor patient-provider communicationAdvanced lung cancerHigh symptom burdenPatient demographic characteristicsPatient-provider communicationAge 77 yearsMedicare/MedicaidRace/ethnicity groupsNon-Hispanic whitesNausea/ vomitingSymptom burdenHospice enrollmentSymptom reliefConcurrent radiationSEER-MedicareOutpatient settingParenteral medicationsLung cancerMedicare beneficiariesPatientsLogistic regressionOlder adults