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Palliative Care Specialist Use Among Medicare Decedents Who Had Poor-Prognosis Cancers

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Description
Examines demographic variation in specialty palliative care (PC) use, utilizing data of all Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries who died from poor-prognosis cancers between 2018 and 2023. See Figure 3 for data on associations between rural or urban populations, among other factors, and PC use.
Author(s)
Isaac S. Chua, Haiden A. Huskamp, Ateev Mehrotra, Andrew D. Wilcock
Citation
JAMA Network Open, 8(7), e2522886
Date
07/2025
Tagged as
Access · Cancer · Hospice and palliative care · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data