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Financial Burden of Drugs Prescribed for Cancer-Associated Symptoms

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By Grewal US, Check DK, Parsons HM, Blaes AH
| ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Review doi: 10.1200/OP.21.00466. Affiliations Affiliations 1 Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. 2 Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN. 3 Department of Internal Medicine, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, LA. 4 Division of Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, PA. 5 Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC.
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Associations of Patient Characteristics and Care Setting With Complexity of Specialty Palliative Care Visits

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By Kamal AH, Check DK, Nicolla JM, Taylor DH
| National Institutes of Health
doi: 10.1089/jpm.2020.0149. Online ahead of print. Arif H Kamal 1 2 , Devon K Check 1 3 , Janet Bull 4 , Steven Wolf 5 , Jesse Troy 6 , Greg Samsa 5 , Jonathan M Nicolla 1 , Matthew Harker 7 , Donald H Taylor 7 8 Affiliations Affiliations 1 Department of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. 2 Duke Fuqua School of Business, Durham, North Carolina, USA. 3 Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
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Supportive care medications, palliative services underused by black women with breast cancer

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By Check DK
| Healio Cardiac/Vascular Intervention Verified
Non-Hispanic black women with stage IV breast cancer used nonopioid supportive medications and hospice care at a lower rate than white women, according to study results. Although supportive medicine receipt did not appear to attenuate end-of-life disparities, black women were more likely to die while hospitalized and to be admitted to an ED in their last month of life, results showed.
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