Health Care Access Dimensions and Racial Disparities in End-of-Life Care Quality among Patients with Ovarian Cancer.
Shama D KaranthOyomoare L Osazuwa-PetersLauren E WilsonRebecca Ann PrevisFariha RahmanBin HuangMaria PisuMargaret I LiangKevin C WardMaria J SchymuraAndrew BerchuckTomi F AkinyemijuPublished in: Cancer research communications (2024)
Among patients with ovarian cancer, Black patients had lower-quality EOL care, even after adjusting for three structural barriers to HCA, namely affordability, availability, and accessibility. This suggests an important need to investigate the roles of yet unexplored barriers to HCA such as accommodation and acceptability, as drivers of poor-quality EOL care among Black patients with ovarian cancer.