Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

ASO Author Reflections: How Does Social Vulnerability Impact Hospice Utilization Among Patients Undergoing Cancer Surgery?

  • ASO Author Reflections
  • Published:
Annals of Surgical Oncology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Statement on Principles Guiding Care at the End of Life. 1998.

  2. Paredes AZ, Hyer JM, Tsilimigras DI, et al. Hospice utilization among medicare beneficiaries dying from pancreatic cancer. J Surg Oncol. 2019;120(4):jso.25623. https://doi.org/10.1002/jso.25623.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Paredes AZ, Hyer JM, Palmer E, Lustberg MB, Pawlik TM. Racial/ethnic disparities in hospice utilization among medicare beneficiaries dying from pancreatic cancer. J Gastrointest Surg. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-020-04568-9.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  4. Johnson KS. Racial and ethnic disparities in palliative care. J Palliative Med. 2013;16(11):1329–34. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2013.9468.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. WHO | Commission on Social Determinants of Health—final report. WHO. 2017. http://www.who.int/social_determinants/thecommission/finalreport/en/. Accessed 12 Aug 2020.

  6. Ludwig J, Sanbonmatsu L, Gennetian L, et al. Neighborhoods, obesity, and diabetes: a randomized social experiment. N Engl J Med. 2011;365(16):1509–19. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa1103216.

    Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  7. Kind AJH, Buckingham WR. Making neighborhood-disadvantage metrics accessible: the neighborhood atlas. N Engl J Med. 2018;378(26):2456–8. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp1802313.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  8. Abbas A, Hyer JM, Pawlik TM. Race/ethnicity and county level social vulnerability impact hospice utilization among patients undergoing cancer surgery. Ann Surg Oncol. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-020-09227-6.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, The Urban Meyer III and Shelley Meyer Chair for Cancer Research, Wexner Medical Center, James Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Alizeh Abbas MD & Timothy M. Pawlik MD, MPH, MTS, PhD

Authors
  1. Alizeh Abbas MD
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Timothy M. Pawlik MD, MPH, MTS, PhD
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Timothy M. Pawlik MD, MPH, MTS, PhD.

Ethics declarations

Disclosures

The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

Additional information

Publisher's Note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

ASO Author Reflections is a brief invited commentary on the article, “Race/ethnicity and county level social vulnerability impact hospice utilization among patients undergoing cancer surgery.” Ann Surg Oncol. (2020). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-020-09227-6.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Abbas, A., Pawlik, T.M. ASO Author Reflections: How Does Social Vulnerability Impact Hospice Utilization Among Patients Undergoing Cancer Surgery?. Ann Surg Oncol 28, 1927–1928 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-020-09234-7

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-020-09234-7

Search

Navigation