The rise of concurrent care for veterans with advanced cancer at the end of life

BACKGROUND Unlike Medicare, the Veterans Health Administration (VA) health care system does not require veterans with cancer to make the “terrible choice” between receipt of hospice services or disease‐modifying chemotherapy/radiation therapy. For this report, the authors characterized the VA's...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Cancer 2016-03, Vol.122 (5), p.782-790
Hauptverfasser:	Mor, Vincent, Joyce, Nina R., Coté, Danielle L., Gidwani, Risha A., Ersek, Mary, Levy, Cari R., Faricy‐Anderson, Katherine E., Miller, Susan C., Wagner, Todd H., Kinosian, Bruce P., Lorenz, Karl A., Shreve, Scott T.
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged Aged, 80 and over Colonic Neoplasms - pathology Colonic Neoplasms - therapy Drug Therapy - statistics & numerical data Drug Therapy - trends end‐of‐life care Female Head and Neck Neoplasms - pathology Head and Neck Neoplasms - therapy Hematologic Neoplasms - pathology Hematologic Neoplasms - therapy Hospice Care - statistics & numerical data Hospice Care - trends hospices Humans Liver Neoplasms - pathology Liver Neoplasms - therapy Lung Neoplasms - pathology Lung Neoplasms - therapy Male Middle Aged neoplasms Neoplasms - pathology Neoplasms - therapy palliative care Palliative Care - statistics & numerical data Palliative Care - trends Prostatic Neoplasms - pathology Prostatic Neoplasms - therapy Radiotherapy - statistics & numerical data Radiotherapy - trends Retrospective Studies Terminal Care - statistics & numerical data Terminal Care - trends United States United States Department of Veterans Affairs veterans Veterans - statistics & numerical data
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