Objectives: Published research in disparities in advance care planning, palliative, and end-
of-life care is limited. However, available data points to significant barriers to palliative and …

Background: Palliative care access, experiences and outcomes of care disadvantage those
from ethnically diverse, Indigenous, First nation and First people communities. Research into …

Background: Numerous studies have documented multilevel racial inequalities in health
care utilization, medical treatment, and quality of care in minority populations in the United …

Racial disparities, including decreased hospice utilization, lower quality symptom
management, and poor-quality end-of-life care have been well documented in Black …

Purpose Pediatric palliative care (PPC) improves quality of life for children and adolescents
with cancer. Little is known about disparities between different racial and ethnic groups in …

Racial disparities in hospice care are well documented for patients with cancer, but the
existence, direction, and extent of disparity findings are contradictory across the literature …

Abstract Background and Objectives The distinct illness trajectory after acute ischemic stroke
demands a better understanding of the utilization of palliative care consultations (PCC) for …

Abstract Context In spring 2020, New York experienced a surge of patients hospitalized with
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19) disease, as …

Background: Patients with end-stage liver disease (ESLD) have a poor quality of life, which
often worsens as disease severity increases. Palliative care (PC) has emerged as a …

Background: Palliative care consultation to discuss goals-of-care (“PCC”) may mitigate end-
of-life care disparities. Objective: To compare hospitalization and cost outcomes by race and …