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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.”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Abstract > Methods
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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.”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Discussion
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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.”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Discussion
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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.”
§ 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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“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.”
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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,”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Discussion
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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”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Discussion
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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.”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Discussion
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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.”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Methods > Statistical analysis
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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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“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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§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Methods > Protocol and measures
“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”
§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Results > Patient characteristics
“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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§ Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life: Associations with End of Life Conversations > Results > Patient characteristics
“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 > Results > Patient characteristics
“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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Chen, C. Y., Naessens, J. M., Takahashi, P. Y., McCoy, R. G., Borah, B. J., Borkenhagen, L. S., Kimeu, A. K., Rojas, R. L., Johnson, M. G., Visscher, S. L., et al. (2018) · Journal of Pain and Symptom Management · doi:10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2018.08.015 · Cited by 18
Early palliative care and its translation into oncology practice in Canada: barriers and challenges.
Fassbender, K., & Watanabe, S. (2015) · PubMed · doi:10.3978/j.issn.2224-5820.2015.06.01 · Cited by 18
Practicing Serious Illness Conversations in Graduate Medical Education
Pottash, M., Joseph, L., & Rhodes, G. (2020) · Medical Science Educator · doi:10.1007/s40670-020-00991-4 · Cited by 17
Simon, J. E., Ghosh, S., Heyland, D. K., Cooke, T., Davison, S. N., Holroyd-Leduc, J. M., Wasylenko, E., Howlett, J. G., & Fassbender, K. (2016) · BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care · doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2015-000919 · Cited by 17
Shen, M. J., Prigerson, H. G., Tergas, A. I., & Maciejewski, P. K. (2018) · Journal of Palliative Medicine · doi:10.1089/jpm.2018.0244 · Cited by 17
Self-citationRadiation Oncologists' Role in End-of-Life Care: A Perspective From Medical Oncologists
Gross, J. P., Kruser, J. M., Moran, M. R., Kaiser, K., Szmuilowicz, E., Kircher, S. M., & Kruser, T. J. (2019) · Practical Radiation Oncology · doi:10.1016/j.prro.2019.04.001 · Cited by 17
Cripe, L. D., Vater, L. B., Lilly, J. A., Larimer, A., Hoffmann, M. L., & Frankel, R. M. (2021) · Patient Education and Counseling · doi:10.1016/j.pec.2021.08.016 · Cited by 17
Kaplan, A. J., Comisar, L., Ufere, N. N., Jannat‐Khah, D., Rosenblatt, R. E., Fortune, B. E., Prigerson, H. G., & Brown, R. H. (2022) · Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology · doi:10.1016/j.cgh.2022.04.042 · Cited by 17
Self-citationImpact of predictive model-directed end-of-life counseling for Medicare beneficiaries.
Hamlet, K. S., Hobgood, A., Hamar, G. B., Dobbs, A. C., Rula, E. Y., & Pope, J. E. (2010) · PubMed · Cited by 17
Yang, Y. T., & Mahon, M. M. (2011) · Medicine Health Care and Philosophy · doi:10.1007/s11019-011-9364-6 · Cited by 17
Chen, J. T., Israel, J. S., Poore, S. O., & Rao, V. K. (2014) · Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery · doi:10.1097/prs.0000000000000635 · Cited by 17
Early Experience with Digital Advance Care Planning and Directives, a Novel Consumer-Driven Program
Fine, R. L., Yang, Z., Spivey, C., Boardman, B., & Courtney, M. (2016) · Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings · doi:10.1080/08998280.2016.11929430 · Cited by 17
Ordons, A. R. D., Kassam, A., & Simon, J. E. (2017) · BMC Medical Education · doi:10.1186/s12909-016-0839-2 · Cited by 17
Lee, L., Hillier, L. M., Locklin, J., Lee, J., & Slonim, K. (2019) · Journal of Palliative Care · doi:10.1177/0825859718812463 · Cited by 16
Creating a bilingual, localized glossary for end-of-life-decision-making in borderland communities
Durá, L., Gonzales, L., & Solis, G. R. (2019) · ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC) · doi:10.1145/3328020.3353940 · Cited by 16
Psycho-Oncology: A Bibliometric Review of the 100 Most-Cited Articles
Fox, S., Lynch, J., D’Alton, P., & Carr, A. (2021) · Healthcare · doi:10.3390/healthcare9081008 · Cited by 16
Effects of Constraints and Consequences on Plan Complexity in Conversations About End-of-Life Care
Russell, J. C. (2015) · Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care · doi:10.1080/15524256.2015.1111286 · Cited by 17
Krystallidou, D., Devisch, I., VELDE, D. V. D., & Pype, P. F. (2017) · Medicine Health Care and Philosophy · doi:10.1007/s11019-017-9769-y · Cited by 16
Chiang, J., & Kao, Y.-H. (2017) · BMC Cancer · doi:10.1186/s12885-017-3561-5 · Cited by 16
Overbeek, A., Polinder, S., Haagsma, J. A., Billekens, P., de Nooijer, K., Hammes, B. J., Muliaditan, D., van der Heide, A., Rietjens, J. A. C., & Korfage, I. J. (2018) · Palliative Medicine · doi:10.1177/0269216318801751 · Cited by 16
Starr, L. T., Ulrich, C. M., Junker, P., Appel, S. M., O’Connor, N. R., & Meghani, S. H. (2020) · Journal of Pain and Symptom Management · doi:10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.05.020 · Cited by 16
Ouchi, K., Lee, R. S., Block, S. D., Aaronson, E. L., Hasdianda, M. A., Wang, W., Rossmassler, S. C., Lopez, R. P., Berry, D. L., Sudore, R. L., et al. (2022) · Palliative Medicine · doi:10.1177/02692163221136641 · Cited by 16
Self-citationRahman, R. M., Catalano, P. J., Reardon, D. A., Norden, A. D., Wen, P. Y., Lee, E. Q., Nayak, L., Beroukhim, R., Dunn, I. F., Golby, A. J., et al. (2015) · Journal of Neuro-Oncology · doi:10.1007/s11060-015-1820-3 · Cited by 16
Liu, L. N., Chen, C. H., Liu, T. W., Lin, Y. C., Lee, S. C. K., & Tang, S. T. (2014) · Cancer Nursing · doi:10.1097/ncc.0000000000000155 · Cited by 16
The Lake Wobegon Effect: Are All Cancer Patients above Average?
Wolf, J. H., & WOLF, K. S. (2013) · Milbank Quarterly · doi:10.1111/1468-0009.12030 · Cited by 16
Turley, M., Wang, S., Meng, D., Kanter, M. H., & Garrido, T. (2015) · Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association · doi:10.1093/jamia/ocv149 · Cited by 16
Surgeon Perspectives Regarding Death and Dying
Dillon, B. R., Healy, M. A., Lee, C. W., Reichstein, A. C., Silveira, M. J., Morris, A. M., & Suwanabol, P. A. (2018) · Journal of Palliative Medicine · doi:10.1089/jpm.2018.0197 · Cited by 16
Hospice Enrollment, Local Hospice Utilization Patterns, and Rehospitalization in Medicare Patients
Holden, T. R., Smith, M. A., Bartels, C. M., Campbell, T. C., Yu, M., & Kind, A. (2015) · Journal of Palliative Medicine · doi:10.1089/jpm.2014.0395 · Cited by 15
End of life and financial risk in GP commissioning
Jones, R. (2012) · British Journal of Healthcare Management · doi:10.12968/bjhc.2012.18.7.374 · Cited by 15
ICU Deaths in Patients With Advanced Cancer
Nasir, S. S., Muthiah, M., Ryder, K., Clark, K. L., Niell, H. B., & Weir, A. B. (2016) · American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine® · doi:10.1177/1049909115625279 · Cited by 15
Ledoux, M., Rhondali, W., Lafumas, V., Berthiller, J., Teissere, M., Piegay, C., Couray‐Targe, S., Schott, A., Bruera, E. D., & Filbet, M. (2015) · BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care · doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2014-000791 · Cited by 15
How U.S. Doctors Die: A Cohort Study of Healthcare Use at the End of Life
Matlock, D. D., Yamashita, T. E., Min, S., Smith, A. K., Kelley, A. S., & Fischer, S. M. (2016) · Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · doi:10.1111/jgs.14112 · Cited by 16
Toward a Conceptual Model of Affective Predictions in Palliative Care
Ellis, E. M., Barnato, A. E., Chapman, G. B., Dionne-Odom, J. N., Lerner, J. S., Peters, E. M., Nelson, W. L., Padgett, L. S., Suls, J. M., & Ferrer, R. A. (2019) · Journal of Pain and Symptom Management · doi:10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.02.008 · Cited by 15
Udelsman, B. V., Lilley, E. J., Qadan, M., Chang, D. C., Lillemoe, K. D., Lindvall, C. J., & Cooper, Z. R. (2019) · Annals of Surgical Oncology · doi:10.1245/s10434-019-07757-2 · Cited by 15
Ortiz‐Ortiz, K. J., Tortolero‐Luna, G., Torres‐Cintrón, C. R., Zavala-Zegarra, D. E., Gierbolini-Bermúdez, A. J., & Ramos-Fernández, M. R. (2021) · JCO Oncology Practice · doi:10.1200/op.20.00541 · Cited by 15
Family Members’ Understanding of the End-of-Life Wishes of People Undergoing Maintenance Dialysis
Saeed, F., Butler, C. R., Clark, C., O'Loughlin, K. M., Engelberg, R. A., Hebert, P. L., Lavallee, D. C., Vig, E. K., Tamura, M. K., Curtis, J. R., et al. (2021) · Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology · doi:10.2215/cjn.04860421 · Cited by 15
Wilson, P. M., Philpot, L. M., Ramar, P., Storlie, C. B., Strand, J. J., Morgan, A. A., Asai, S. W., Ebbert, J. O., Herasevich, V., Soleimani, J., et al. (2021) · Trials · doi:10.1186/s13063-021-05546-5 · Cited by 15
Mojtahedi, Z., Koo, J. S., Yoo, J. W., Kim, P. C., Kang, H., Hwang, J., Joo, M. K., & Shen, J. J. (2021) · Cancer Management and Research · doi:10.2147/cmar.s330448 · Cited by 15
Age differences in the last week of life in advanced cancer patients followed at home
Mercadante, S., Aielli, F., Masedu, F., Valenti, M., Verna, L., & Porzio, G. (2015) · Supportive Care in Cancer · doi:10.1007/s00520-015-2988-y · Cited by 15
Dartmouth Atlas: Putting End-of-Life Care on the Map but Missing Psychosocial Detail
Prigerson, H. G., & Maciejewski, P. K. (2011) · The Journal of Supportive Oncology · doi:10.1016/j.suponc.2011.06.001 · Cited by 15
Self-citationVergo, M. T., Sachs, S., MacMartin, M. A., Kirkland, K. B., Cullinan, A. M., & Stephens, L. (2016) · Journal of Palliative Medicine · doi:10.1089/jpm.2016.0348 · Cited by 15
Inoue, M., Ihara, E. S., & Terrillion, A. (2017) · Journal of Applied Gerontology · doi:10.1177/0733464817748778 · Cited by 15
Custos e qualidade de vida de pacientes em cuidados paliativos
Rafael, S. Z., Vidal, S. A., de Oliveira, A. G., da Silva, M. I. C., Vicente, C. D., & Lopes, L. G. F. (2018) · Revista de Enfermagem UFPE on line · doi:10.5205/1981-8963-v12i6a234832p1688-1695-2018 · Cited by 15
Perspectives of Health Care Payer Organizations on Cancer Care Delivery Redesign: A National Study
Patel, M. I., Moore, D., Bhattacharya, J., Milstein, A. S., & Coker, T. R. (2018) · Journal of Oncology Practice · doi:10.1200/jop.18.00331 · Cited by 15
An Assessment of Social Diffusion in the Respecting Choices Advance Care Planning Program
Moorman, S. M., Carr, D., Kirchhoff, K. T., & Hammes, B. J. (2012) · Death Studies · doi:10.1080/07481187.2011.584016 · Cited by 15
Advance Care Planning in the Outpatient Geriatric Medicine Setting
Struck, B. D., Brown, E. A., & Madison, S. D. (2017) · Primary Care Clinics in Office Practice · doi:10.1016/j.pop.2017.04.008 · Cited by 14
Quinn, K. L., Hsu, A. T., Meaney, C. A., Qureshi, D., Tanuseputro, P., Seow, H. Y., Webber, C., Fowler, R. A., Downar, J., Goldman, R., et al. (2021) · Palliative Medicine · doi:10.1177/02692163211002045 · Cited by 14
A scoping review of clinical communication in cancer care in Africa
DeBoer, R. J., Wabl, C. A., Mushi, B. P., Uwamahoro, P., Athanas, R., Ndoli, D. A., Rugengamanzi, E., Ngoma, M., Tuyishime, H., Mtei, D., et al. (2025) · The Oncologist · doi:10.1093/oncolo/oyaf039 · Cited by 14
Evaluating a clinical decision support interface for end-of-life nurse care
Febretti, A., Lopez, K. D., Stifter, J., Johnson, A. E., Keenan, G. M., & Wilkie, D. J. (2014) · CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA) · doi:10.1145/2559206.2581170 · Cited by 14
Ten Best Practices to Enhance Culturally Competent Communication in Palliative Care
Long, C. O. (2011) · Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology · doi:10.1097/mph.0b013e318230dfb4 · Cited by 14
Development of a tethered personal health record framework for early end-of-life discussions.
Bose‐Brill, S., Kretovics, M., Ballenger, T., Modan, G. G., Lai, A. M., Belanger, L. K., Koesters, S. C., Vydra, T. P., Holloman, C., & Wills, C. (2016) · PubMed · Cited by 14
Advance Care Planning in Nurse Practitioner Practice: A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study
Rietze, L., Heale, R., Hill, L. C., & Roles, S. (2016) · Nursing leadership · doi:10.12927/cjnl.2016.24897 · Cited by 14
Advance care planning in the community: factors of influence
Gallagher, J., Bolt, T., & Tamiya, N. (2020) · BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care · doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2020-002221 · Cited by 14
Walker, L. E., Bellolio, F., Dobler, C. C., Hargraves, I. G., Pignolo, R. J., Shaw, K., Strand, J. J., Thorsteinsdottir, B., Wilson, M. E., & Hess, E. P. (2021) · MDM Policy & Practice · doi:10.1177/23814683211058082 · Cited by 14
Myrhøj, C. B., Viftrup, D. T., Jarden, M., & Clemmensen, S. N. (2023) · BMC Palliative Care · doi:10.1186/s12904-023-01221-5 · Cited by 14
Matter-Walstra, K. W., Achermann, R., Rapold, R., Klingbiel, D., Bordoni, A., Dehler, S., Jundt, G., Konzelmann, I., Clough‐Gorr, K. M., Szucs, T. D., et al. (2014) · Oncology · doi:10.1159/000367629 · Cited by 14
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Palliative care and advance care planning for pancreas and other cancers
Agarwal, R., & Epstein, A. S. (2017) · Chinese Clinical Oncology · doi:10.21037/cco.2017.06.16 · Cited by 14
Rhee, M., & Jang, Y. (2019) · The International Journal of Aging and Human Development · doi:10.1177/0091415019848211 · Cited by 14
Uncertainty and certain death: the role of clinical trials in terminal cancer care
Cortez, D., & Halpin, M. (2020) · Sociology of Health & Illness · doi:10.1111/1467-9566.13059 · Cited by 14
Ito, K., Uemura, T., Yuasa, M., Onishi, E., Shiozawa, Y., Ishikawa, H., Ouchi, K., & Nakagawa, S. (2021) · American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine® · doi:10.1177/10499091211044477 · Cited by 14
Serious Illness Treatment Preferences for Older Adults with Advanced CKD
Baddour, N. A., Siew, E. D., Robinson‐Cohen, C., Salat, H., Mason, O. J., Stewart, T. G., Karlekar, M. B., El-Sourady, M. H., Lipworth, L. P., & Abdel-Kader, K. F. M. (2019) · Journal of the American Society of Nephrology · doi:10.1681/asn.2019040385 · Cited by 15
Arends, S. A. M., Thodé, M., Pasman, H. R. W., Francke, A. L., & Jongerden, I. P. (2023) · Patient Education and Counseling · doi:10.1016/j.pec.2023.107863 · Cited by 13
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Shehata, N., Forster, A. J., Lawrence, N., Ducharme, R., Fergusson, D. A., Chassé, M., Rothwell, D. M., Hébert, P. C., Tinmouth, A. T., & Wilson, K. R. (2015) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0138427 · Cited by 13
End-of-Life Planning and Health Care
Carr, D., & Luth, E. A. (2015) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-417235-7.00018-4 · Cited by 13
Li, Z., Jiang, S., He, R., Dong, Y., Pan, Z., Xu, C., Lu, F., Zhang, P., & Zhang, L. (2018) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph15122877 · Cited by 13
Delivery of end‐of‐life care in an emergency department–based intensive care unit
Leith, T. B., Haas, N. L., Harvey, C. E., Chen, C., Tallman, C. I., & Bassin, B. S. (2020) · Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open · doi:10.1002/emp2.12258 · Cited by 13
Orlović, M., Warraich, H. J., Wolf, D. A., & Mossialos, E. A. (2021) · Journal of Pain and Symptom Management · doi:10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2021.05.018 · Cited by 13
Vellani, S., Green, E., Kulasegaram, P., Sussman, T., Wickson-Griffiths, A., & Kaasalainen, S. (2022) · BMC Palliative Care · doi:10.1186/s12904-022-01014-2 · Cited by 13
Prachanukool, T., Block, S. D., Berry, D. L., Lee, R. S., Rossmassler, S. C., Hasdianda, M. A., Wang, W., Sudore, R. L., Schonberg, M. A., Tulsky, J. A., et al. (2022) · Trials · doi:10.1186/s13063-022-06797-6 · Cited by 13
Self-citationThe TRIBE model: How socioemotional processes fuel end-of-life treatment in the United States
Duberstein, P. R., Hoerger, M. P., Norton, S. A., Mohile, S. G., Dahlberg, B., Hyatt, E. G., Epstein, R. M., & Wittink, M. N. (2022) · Social Science & Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115546 · Cited by 13
Pavlish, C., Hellyer, J. M. H., Brown‐Saltzman, K., Miers, A. G., & Squire, K. M. (2013) · Advances in Nursing Science · doi:10.1097/ans.0000000000000004 · Cited by 13
The Emotional and Economic Costs of Bereavement in Health Care Settings
Genevro, J., & Miller, T. L. (2010) · Psychologica Belgica · doi:10.5334/pb-50-1-2-69 · Cited by 13
Goldberg, S. L., Pecora, A. L., Contreras, J., DeMarco, K. E., Paramanathan, D., DeVincenzo, V., Schultz, E. V., & Choi, K. (2016) · Journal of Palliative Medicine · doi:10.1089/jpm.2015.0459 · Cited by 13
Wallace, C. L., Cruz-Oliver, D. M., Ohs, J. E., & Hinyard, L. (2018) · American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine® · doi:10.1177/1049909118783736 · Cited by 13
Yen, Y., Hu, H., Lai, Y., Chou, Y. C., Chen, C.-C., & Ho, C.-Y. (2022) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-022-08886-7 · Cited by 13
Lim, T., Nam, S., Kim, M. S., Yoon, K. S., & Kim, B.-S. (2012) · American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine® · doi:10.1177/1049909112442586 · Cited by 13
Chan, W. C., Jackson, G., Winnard, D., & Anderson, P. (2024) · PubMed · doi:10.60967/healthnz.27662100 · Cited by 13
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Readiness of Advance Care Planning Among Patients With Cardiovascular Disease
Fukue, N., Naito, E., Kimura, M., Ono, K., Sato, S., Takaki, A., & Ikeda, Y. (2022) · Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine · doi:10.3389/fcvm.2022.838240 · Cited by 12
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The Effect of Advance Directives on End-of-Life Cost Experience
Fonk, J., Davidoff, D., Lutzow, T., Chesley, N., & Mathiowetz, N. A. (2012) · Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved · doi:10.1353/hpu.2012.0098 · Cited by 12
Prolonged Grief Disorder: A Problem for the Past, the Present, and the Future
Workman, S. R. (2009) · PLoS Medicine · doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000122 · Cited by 12
Changing the Face of Death: A Pedagogic Intervention
Todaro‐Franceschi, V. (2011) · Journal of Professional Nursing · doi:10.1016/j.profnurs.2011.04.002 · Cited by 12
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Sathitratanacheewin, S., Engelberg, R. A., Downey, L., Lee, R. Y., Fausto, J. A., Starks, H. E., Dunlap, B., Sibley, J., Lober, W. B., Loggers, E. T., et al. (2017) · Journal of Pain and Symptom Management · doi:10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2017.08.032 · Cited by 12
Metasynthesis: Dying adults’ transition process from cure‐focused to comfort‐focused care
Meeker, M. A., McGinley, J. M., & Jezewski, M. A. (2019) · Journal of Advanced Nursing · doi:10.1111/jan.13970 · Cited by 12
Early palliative care for improving quality of life and survival time in adults with advanced cancer
Haun, M. W., Estel, S., Rücker, G., Friederich, H., Thomas, M., & Hartmann, M. (2014) · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · doi:10.1002/14651858.cd011129 · Cited by 12
An Employer Health Incentive Plan for Advance Care Planning and Goal-Aligned Care
Gonzales, M. J., Dobro, J., Guilfoile, K., Fisher, K., & Byock, I. R. (2017) · Population Health Management · doi:10.1089/pop.2017.0125 · Cited by 11
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ADCC's Improving Goal Concordant Care Initiative: Implementing Primary Palliative Care Principles
Loggers, E. T., Case, A. A., Chwistek, M., Dale, W., Delgado-Guay, M. O., Edge, S. B., Grossman, S. R., Gustin, J., Nelson, J. E., Rajasekhara, S., et al. (2023) · Journal of Pain and Symptom Management · doi:10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2023.05.008 · Cited by 11
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
- Citations by year
- 2026: 20 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 35 · 2023: 45 · 2022: 57 · 2021: 58 · 2020: 69 · 2019: 66 · 2018: 57 · 2017: 80 · 2016: 57 · 2015: 67 · 2014: 50 · 2013: 61 · 2012: 50
- FWCI
- 49.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- 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
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
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Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
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