End-of-life quality metrics among medicare decedents at minority-serving cancer centers: A retrospective study.

Garrett T WaspShama S AlamGabriel A BrooksInas S KhayalNirav S KapadiaDonald Q CarmichaelAndrea M AustinAmber E Barnato

Published in: Cancer medicine (2020)

EOL quality metrics vary across NCI/NCCN centers. Within center, care was similar for minority and white patients. Minority-serving centers had worse performance on many metrics.

Keyphrases

quality improvement
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
palliative care
papillary thyroid
prognostic factors
squamous cell carcinoma
patient reported outcomes
chronic kidney disease
pain management
lymph node metastasis
patient reported
health insurance