Trends in cancer care near the end of life a Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care brief

This Atlas Brief and the accompanying data released on the Dartmouth Atlas web site (www.dartmouthatlas.org) report the latest findings on end-of-life cancer care. Since the last Dartmouth Atlas report, the trends in end-of-life cancer care across the country have been mixed. While patients are spen...

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Main Authors: Goodman, David C., Morden, Nancy Elizabeth (Author), Chang, Chiang-Hua (Author), Fisher, Elliott S. (Author)
Corporate Authors: Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth Atlas Project
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Lebanon, N.H.] The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice 2013, September 4, 2013
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520 |a This Atlas Brief and the accompanying data released on the Dartmouth Atlas web site (www.dartmouthatlas.org) report the latest findings on end-of-life cancer care. Since the last Dartmouth Atlas report, the trends in end-of-life cancer care across the country have been mixed. While patients are spending fewer days hospitalized in the last month of life, the number of days in ICUs has increased. Hospice days have also increased, but a growing proportion of patients begin receiving hospice services in the last three days of life, a time period often too short to provide patients the full benefit of hospice care