Rural-Urban Disparities in Place of Death in Hematologic Malignancies in the United States, 2003 to 2019

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Examines place of death (POD) by home, hospice, or nursing/medical facility due to hematologic malignancy mortalities that occurred between 2013 and 2019. Analyzes 1,009,717 deaths recorded in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (CDC WONDER) database and breaks down POD by large metropolitan, medium/small metropolitan, and rural metropolitan. Discusses disparities in urban and rural community access to end-of-life resources.

S. M. Qasim Hussaini, Amanda L. Blackford, Arjun Gupta, et al.

Blood Advances, 6(16), 4731-4734

08/2022

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Access · Cancer · Health disparities · Hospice and palliative care · Mortality · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data