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Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations With End-of-Life Conversations
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BACKGROUND: Life-sustaining medical care of patients with advanced cancer at the end of life (EOL) is costly. Patient-physician discussions about EOL wishes are associated with lower rates of intensive interventions. METHODS: Funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Cancer Institute, Coping With Cancer is a longitudinal multi-institutional study of 627 patients with advanced cancer. Patients were interviewed at baseline and were followed up through death. Costs for intensive care unit and hospital stays, hospice care, and life-sustaining procedures (eg, mechanical ventilator use and resuscitation) received in the last week of life were aggregated. Generalized linear models were applied to test for cost differences in EOL care. Propensity score matching was used to reduce selection biases. RESULTS: Of 603 participants, 188 (31.2%) reported EOL discussions at baseline. After propensity score matching, the remaining 415 patients did not differ in sociodemographic characteristics, recruitment sites, illness acknowledgment, or treatment preferences. Further analyses, adjusted by quintiles of propensity scores and significant confounders, revealed that the mean (SE) aggregate costs of care (in 2008 US dollars) were $1876 ($177) for patients who reported EOL discussions compared with $2917 ($285) for patients who did not, a cost difference of $1041 (35.7% lower among patients who reported EOL discussions) (P =.002). Patients with higher costs had worse quality of death in their final week (Pearson production moment correlation partial r = -0.17, P =.006). CONCLUSIONS: Patients with advanced cancer who reported having EOL conversations with physicians had significantly lower health care costs in their final week of life. Higher costs were associated with worse quality of death.
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“There was no survival difference associated with higher health care expenditures at the EOL.”
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“there was no survival difference associated with health care expenditures”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Results > Association between medical costs, patients' quality of death and survival in the final week of life
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“188 patients (31.2%) reported EOL discussions at baseline.”
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“Among them, 188 (31.2%) reported having discussed their EOL wishes with physicians.”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Abstract > Results
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“Patients with higher costs had worse quality of death (Pearson partial r=-0.17, p=0.006) in their final week.”
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“Additional analyses using deceased patients in the study sample (N=316) showed that higher medical costs in the final week of life were associated with more physical distress in the last week of life (Pearson partial r=0.18, p=0.003) and worse overall quality of death as reported by the caregiver (Pearson partial r=-0.17, p=0.006) after controlling for age, race, gender, education, survival and”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Abstract > Results
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“Additional analyses using deceased patients in the study sample (N=316) showed that higher medical costs in the final week of life were associated with more physical distress in the last week of life (Pearson partial r=0.18, p=0.003) and worse overall quality of death as reported by the caregiver (Pearson partial r=-0.17, p=0.006) after controlling for age, race, gender, education, survival and”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Results > Association between medical costs, patients' quality of death and survival in the final week of life
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“Patients who reported EOL discussions had less physical distress in the last week of life [3.6 (3.2) vs. 4.5 (3.7), p=0.04] than those who did not”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Results > Medical care at EOL, location of death, quality of death and survival
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“Propensity score matching was used to reduce selection biases.”
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“Propensity score matching15 was used to remove the observed differences between the two groups.”
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“These findings suggest that EOL discussions might reduce health care expenditures by reducing cancer patients' utilization of intensive care.”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Introduction
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“Our findings demonstrate that advanced cancer patients who reported EOL conversations with physicians had lower medical costs in their final week of life compared to those who did not, which is largely a function of their more limited use of intensive interventions.”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Discussion
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“Because this is an observational study we cannot conclude that there is a causal relationship between EOL conversations and cost differences in the last week of life.”
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“Like most studies of medical expenditures 2,3, 23,24 which rely heavily on costs covered by insurers or Medicare, this study likely underestimates the total cost of care given that it does not include out-patient services or out-of-pocket expenditures or opportunity costs incurred by patients and their caregivers for additional pharmaceutical and home care payments.”
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“Patients who reported EOL conversations with their physicians at baseline were less likely to undergo ventilation, resuscitation, be admitted to or die in an ICU in the final week of life.”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Results > Medical care at EOL, location of death, quality of death and survival
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“Further analyses, adjusted by quintiles of propensity scores and significant confounders, revealed that the aggregate costs of care were $1876 (SE=177) for patients who reported EOL discussions compared with $2917 (SE=285) for patients who did not (in 2008 US dollars), a cost difference of $1041 (35.7% lower among patients who reported EOL discussions) [p=0.002].”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Abstract > Results
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“but the two groups did not differ in psychological distress, quality of death or survival.”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Results > Medical care at EOL, location of death, quality of death and survival
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“They were more likely to receive outpatient hospice care and stay longer in hospice.”
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“Patient-physician discussions about EOL wishes were found to be associated with lower rates of intensive interventions.”
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“A recent study, using data from a longitudinal, multi-institutional cohort study, Coping with Cancer (CWC), showed that EOL conversations between patients and physicians are associated with fewer life-sustaining procedures and lower rates of ICU admission.5”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Abstract > Background
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“Interviewers were trained by research staff at Yale University School of Medicine and were required to achieve a level of accuracy based on concordance with the Yale training director's rating of the Structured Clinical Interview for the DSM-IV (SCID) diagnoses (κ>0.85).”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Methods > Protocol and measures
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“Nevertheless, our study suggests that increasing communication between patients and their physicians is associated with better outcomes and less expensive medical care.”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Discussion
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“In addition, exclusion of unmatched subjects from the study may limit generalizability of the results to general population.”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Discussion
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“After propensity score matching, the remaining 145 patients did not differ in socio-demographic characteristics, recruitment sites, illness acknowledgement or treatment preferences.”
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“The deceased patients in the propensity-score matched cohort (N=145) did not differ by the variables shown in Table 2.”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Abstract > Results
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“One strength of this study is that the matched subjects did not differ in observed variables, including patients' socio-demographic characteristics, cancer type, recruitment sites, treatment preferences, or illness acknowledgment. Additionally, these variables were also examined as potential confounders and were controlled for if they remained significant in the multivariate analyses. Therefore,”
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“Although propensity score matching is one of the most robust methods to correct for selection bias in observables, it cannot account for hidden biases.”
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“In this study, higher health care costs were not associated with better outcomes at the EOL: there was no survival difference associated with health care expenditures, and patients who spent more in insured health care had worse quality of life in their final week of life.”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Discussion
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“Covariates, including age, gender, race, education, marriage status, health insurance, religion, Karnofsky score, Charlson Comorbidity Index, MQOL physical and symptom subscales, recruitment sites (Yale, Parkland, NHOH), treatment preferences and desire to know life expectancy, were included in predicting the conditional likelihood of having an EOL discussion.”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Methods > Statistical analysis
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“Although propensity-score matching balanced differences among the recruitment sites, our study does not include all geographic areas in the United States which may be particularly important since there are documented regional differences in the intensity of EOL care. 27”
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“Another limitation is that cost estimates were based upon aggregated costs from national averages for hospitalizations, life-sustaining procedures and hospice care instead of medical claims data. Although this method may be viewed as less accurate, our cost estimates are comparable to other studies that used medical claims data.23,24”
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“Our study is unique in that it also suggests that these cost deductions are accompanied by a better quality of life for advanced cancer patients at the EOL.”
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“Models examined potential confounders of socio-demographic characteristics, religion, cancer type, recruitment sites, Karnofsky score, illness acknowledgement, treatment preferences and survival time using the backward selection procedure and controlled for those remained significant in the multivariate models.”
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The link between health care spending and patient-physician communication at the end of life has not been thoroughly studied.
“To the best of our knowledge, the association between health care expenditures and patient-physician communication at the EOL has not been fully examined.”
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Patients' self-report of having had an end-of-life discussion accurately indicates whether such a discussion took place.
“EOL discussions were assessed at baseline by asking: “Have you and your doctor discussed any particular wishes you have about the care you would want to receive if you were dying?””
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Reports from caregivers or nurses about the patient's quality of death accurately capture the patient's quality of life in the final week.
“After the patients' death, caregivers both formal (i.e., paid clinicians such as nurses) and informal (i.e., unpaid caretakers such as spouses) were asked to assess the patients' quality of life in the period immediately prior to death e.g. “In your opinion, how would you rate overall quality of the patient's death/last week of life?””
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Patients and caregivers may place different values on care.
“Additionally, we acknowledge that patients and caregivers may value care differently. Patients may consider extra dollars spent and more life-sustaining care worth the added expense whereas caregivers may devalue life-sustaining care.”
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“it is underutilized by the ESRD population, even among patients who withdraw from dialysis.”
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“Rates of hospice use before death among patients with ESRD are less than half of those seen among patients dying of cancer, even among patients with ESRD who choose to withdraw from dialysis before death [11].”
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Reported symptom scores exceed the stated scale maximum
MinorThe methods define the McGill symptom burden subscale as ranging from 0 to 10, but the results report group means of 10.4 and 12.0 on that subscale. A group mean cannot exceed the scale's maximum.
“Patient's self-reported health status was measured with the physical health and symptom burden subscales of the McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire [scale 0-10, where 0=desirable and 10=undesirable)].11”
“They had more co-morbid conditions [8.5(2.7) vs. 7.9(2.7), p=0.007) but lower symptom burden [McGill symptoms subscale score [10.4(4.3) vs. 12.0(4.4), p<0.0001)].”
Overall symptom scores disagree across two partitions of the sample
MinorThe discussion groups partition the 603 patients into 188 and 415, giving an overall symptom mean of about 8.66 from the reported group means. The matched and unmatched groups also partition those 603 patients, but their reported means give an overall mean of about 11.34 for the same symptom subscale.
“Among them, 188 (31.2%) reported having discussed their EOL wishes with physicians.”
“They had more co-morbid conditions [8.5(2.7) vs. 7.9(2.7), p=0.007) but lower symptom burden [McGill symptoms subscale score [10.4(4.3) vs. 12.0(4.4), p<0.0001)].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Zhang, B., Wright, A. A., Huskamp, H. A., Nilsson, M. E., Maciejewski, M. L., Earle, C. C., Block, S. D., Maciejewski, P. K., & Prigerson, H. G.
- Affiliations
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- Yale University (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Archives of Internal Medicine
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 2009-03-09
- Volume
- 169
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 480
- ISSN
- 0003-9926 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2862687
- OpenAlex
- W2169467289
- Cited by
- 898
- References
- 21
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- FWCI
- 49.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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- Archives of Internal Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH-63892, R01MH063892)
- National Cancer Institute (R01CA106370, CA106370)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Palliative and Oncologic Care
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
- Keywords
- end-of-life care, advanced cancer, health care costs, advance care planning, quality of death, intensive care utilization, hospice care, mechanical ventilation, resuscitation, last week of life
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Attitude to Death, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Neoplasms, Physician-Patient Relations, Quality of Life, Terminal Care, Health Care Costs
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