Association of Racial Differences With End-of-Life Care Quality in the United States

Rashmi K Sharma; Vicki A Freedman; Vincent Mor; Judith D Kasper; Pedro Gozalo; Joan M Teno

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.4793

Association of Racial Differences With End-of-Life Care Quality in the United States

JAMA Intern Med. 2017 Dec 1;177(12):1858-1860. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.4793.

Authors

Rashmi K Sharma¹, Vicki A Freedman², Vincent Mor³, Judith D Kasper⁴, Pedro Gozalo³, Joan M Teno⁵

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle.
² Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
³ Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island.
⁴ Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁵ Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle.

Abstract

This cross-sectional analysis of survey data collected from 2011 to 2015 for the National Health and Aging Trends Study assesses whether racial differences in the quality of end-of-life care persist in the United States.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aged
Black People*
Black or African American
Critical Illness / epidemiology*
Humans
Incidence
Quality of Health Care*
Terminal Care / standards*
United States / epidemiology
White People*

Grants and funding

U01 AG032947/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States