The quality of supportive care among inpatients dying with advanced cancer

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2189-2194

  Walling, Anne M ^a,c   Asch, Steven M ^f,g   Lorenz, Karl A ^c,d   Malin, Jennifer ^c   Roth, Carol P ^d   Barry, Tod ^e   Wenger, Neil S ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced cancer; Quality of care; Supportive care

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL CANCER; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; ASSESSING SYMPTOMS SIDE EFFECTS AND INDICATORS OF SUPPORTIVE TREATMENT; BLADDER CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CARE; CANCER OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE; CANCER PATIENT; CARE AND CARING; COLORECTAL CANCER; DEATH; DYING; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SARCOMA; STOMACH CANCER; SUPPORTIVE CARE; SYMPTOM; THYMUS CANCER; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84865160749     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-012-1462-3     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Steinhauser KE et al (2000) Factors considered important at the end of life by patients, family, physicians, and other care providers. JAMA 284:2476-2482
2. Steinhauser KE, Clipp EC, McNeilly M et al (2000) In search of a good death: observations of patients, families and providers. Ann Intern Med 132:825-832 (Pubitemid 30317799)
3. Walling A, Lorenz KA, Dy SM et al (2008) Evidence-based recommendations for information and care planning in cancer care. J Clin Oncol 26:3896-3902
4. Grunier A, Mor V, Witzen S et al (2007) Where People Die: a multilevel approach to understanding influences on site of death in America. Med Care Res Rev 64:351-378 (Pubitemid 47084216)
5. Lorenz K, Lynn J, Dy S et al (2006) Quality measures for symptoms and advance care planning in cancer: a systematic review. J Clin Oncol 24:4933-4938 (Pubitemid 46630923)
6. Lorenz KA, Dy SM, Naeim A et al (2009) Quality measures for supportive cancer care: the cancer quality-ASSIST project. J Pain Symptom Manage 37:943-964
7. Walling AM, Asch SM, Lorenz KA et al (2010) The quality of care provided to hospitalized patients at the end of life. Arch Intern Med 170:1057-1063
8. Steinhauser KE, Christakis NA, Clipp EC et al (2001) Preparing for the end of life: preferences of patients, families, physicians, and other care providers. J Pain Symptom Manage 22:727-737 (Pubitemid 32776585)
9. Teno JM, Clarridge BR, Casey V et al (2004) Family perspectives on end-of-life care at the last place of care. JAMA 291:99-93
10. Singer PA, Martin DK, Keiner M (1999) Quality end of life care: patients' perspectives. JAMA 281:163-168
11. Casarett D, Pickard A, Bailey E et al (2008) Do palliative consultations improve patient outcomes? J Am Geriatr Soc 56:593-599 (Pubitemid 351473505)
12. Wright AA, Zhang B, Ray A et al (2008) Association between endof-life discussions, patient mental health, medical care near death, and caregiver bereavement adjustment. JAMA 300(14):1665-1673
13. Lautrette A, Darmon M, Megerbane B et al (2007) A communication strategy and brochure for relatives of patients dying in the ICU. N Eng J Med 356:469
14. Higginson IJ, Finlay IG, Goodwin DM et al (2003) Is there evidence that palliative care teams alter end-of-life experiences of patients and their caregivers? J Pain Symptom Manage 25:150-168 (Pubitemid 36183293)
15. Temel JS, Greer JA, Muzikansky A et al (2010) Early palliative care for patients with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer. NEJM 363:733-742
16. Garrett JM, Harris RP, Norburn JK et al (1993) Life-sustaining treatments during terminal illness. Who wants what? J Gen Intern Med 8(7):361-368 (Pubitemid 23214011)
17. Pearlman RA, Cain KC, Starks H et al (2000) Preferences for lifesustaining treatments in advance care planning and surrogate decision making. J Palliat Med 3:37-48 (Pubitemid 30262886)
18. Luck J, Peabody JW, Dresselhaus TR et al (2000) How well does chart abstraction measure quality? Am J Med 108(8):642-649
19. Glare P et al (2003) A systematic review of physicians' survival predictions in terminally ill cancer patients. BMJ 327:195-198 (Pubitemid 36920584)
20. Malin JL, O'Neill SM, Asch SM et al (2011) Quality of supportive care for patients with advanced cancer in a VA medical center. J Palliat Med 14:573-577
21. Dy SM, Asch SM, Lorenz KA, Weeks K, Sharma RK, Wolff AC, Malin JL (2011) Quality of end-of-life care for patients with advanced cancer in an academic medical center. J Palliat Med 14:451-457