Amber E. Barnato

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Discussion In this retrospective cohort of Medicare fee-for-service decedents with poor prognosis cancers who received care at NCI and/or NCCN cancer centres, we demonstrate the feasibility of developing dynamic utilisation heatmaps at the EOL that provide rich insight into patterns of systematically different EOL care for their advanced cancer patients.

Summary Three palliative care clinical trials were presented at the 2020 American Society for Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting. The heterogeneity in populations, models of care, study design, and assessment of clinical outcomes across these three studies show the broad opportunities for research into interventions for palliative care.