From 1993 to 2002, an increasing proportion of patients in whom advanced lung cancer had been diagnosed received ICU care near the end of life. Of those patients receiving ICU care, one in four ...

Patients who receive systemic anti-cancer treatment near end of life are more likely to be hospitalized, go to the intensive care unit or emergency department, and are less likely to utilize hospice ...

While chronically-ill Medicare patients spent less time in the hospital in 2007 compared to 2003, the intensity of care for patients who were hospitalized increased, according to a news release on the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of aggressive end-of-life cancer treatment has not changed over the past decade. Physician and institutional ...

Table 1 describes the baseline characteristics of eligible subjects age ≥ 66 years of age and the percentage of subjects who had received ICU care in the last 6 months of life. Among 45,627 patients ...