Emergency Department Use at End of Life

There has been an increasing interest in describing emergency department (ED) use by cancer patients at the end of life (EOL) over the past two decades. Patients, providers, and healthcare administrators have endorsed ED visits in the last weeks of life as an indicator of poor quality of EOL care. Depending on the patients studied, methods used for measurement, and window of observation, ED visits ranged from 1.5% having two or more ED visits …