Publications by authors named "K R Yabroff"
Background: Wildfires pose substantial health and safety threats to patients recovering from lung cancer surgery. Without specific disaster preparedness guidelines, surgical oncologists might resort to improvisational strategies, such as extending post-operative length of stay (LOS) to support surgical recovery and better protect the health and safety of patients.
Methods: Individuals aged ≥18 years who received curative-intent lobectomy or pneumonectomy for stage I-III non-small cell lung cancer between 2004 and 2021 were selected from the National Cancer Database.
Purpose: Early integration of specialized palliative care (PC) is recommended by clinical guidelines for advanced-stage cancers, but real-world evidence of its use is limited. We examined the recent trend of early PC billing among Medicare beneficiaries with distant-stage cancers and associated provider- and organization-level factors.
Methods: Using SEER-Medicare data, we identified Medicare Fee-For-Service beneficiaries 65.
Importance: Considerable efforts have been dedicated to improving the quality of end-of-life care among patients with advanced cancer in the past decade. Whether the quality has shifted in response to these efforts remains unknown.
Objective: To examine contemporary patterns of end-of-life care among patients with advanced cancer.
Objective: To examine the trend in Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor (ICI) use before and after FDA approval in 2015 for patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and whether vertical integration of oncologists affected ICI use.
Study Setting And Design: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of patients with metastatic NSCLC from 21 population-based cancer registries in the United States. We measured whether patients' treating oncologists were vertically integrated based on ≥ 10% of total services billed through hospital outpatient departments.