Palliative Care is Associated with Reduced Aggressive End-of-Life Care in Patients with Gastrointestinal Cancer.

Related Articles Palliative Care is Associated with Reduced Aggressive End-of-Life Care in Patients with Gastrointestinal Cancer. Ann Surg Oncol. 2018 Jun;25(6):1478-1487 Authors: Merchant SJ, Brogly SB, Goldie C, Booth CM, Nanji S, Patel SV, Lajkosz K, Baxter NN Abstract BACKGROUND: We examined the delivery of physician palliative care (PC) services and its association with aggressive end-of-life care (EOLC) in patients with gastrointestinal (GI) cancer in Ontario, Canada. METHODS: All patients with primary cause of death from esophageal, gastric, colon, and anorectal cancer from January 2003 to December 2013 were identified. PC services within 2 years of death were classified: (1) any…
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