2020
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Hospice Utilization Among Medicare Beneficiaries Dying from Pancreatic Cancer
Paredes AZ, Hyer JM, Palmer E, Lustberg MB, Pawlik TM. Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Hospice Utilization Among Medicare Beneficiaries Dying from Pancreatic Cancer. Journal Of Gastrointestinal Surgery 2020, 25: 155-161. PMID: 32193849, DOI: 10.1007/s11605-020-04568-9.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEthnic minority patientsPancreatic cancerHospice utilizationMinority patientsHospice servicesWhite patientsMedicare Standard Analytic FilesRacial/Ethnic DisparitiesStandard Analytic FilesDeceased individualsTime of deathOverall low useClinical factorsMost patientsMultivariable analysisAnalytic FilesMedicare beneficiariesPancreatectomyPatientsComparable oddsEthnic disparitiesCancerLogistic regressionLow useDeath
2019
Racial/ethnic disparities in hospice utilization among Medicare beneficiaries dying from pancreatic cancer.
Paredes A, Hyer M, Palmer E, Lustberg M, Pawlik T. Racial/ethnic disparities in hospice utilization among Medicare beneficiaries dying from pancreatic cancer. Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2019, 37: 41-41. DOI: 10.1200/jco.2019.37.31_suppl.41.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEthnic minority patientsWhite patientsHospice utilizationPancreatic cancerMinority patientsHospice servicesMedicare Standard Analytic FilesStandard Analytic FilesAspects of careTime of deathOverall low useComorbidity burdenMost patientsClinical factorsMultivariable analysisTreatment disparitiesAnalytic FilesMedicare beneficiariesPancreatectomyPatientsComparable oddsEthnic disparitiesCancerEthnic minoritiesLow use
2018
Usefulness of Integrating Heart Failure Risk Factors Into Impairment of Global Longitudinal Strain to Predict Anthracycline-Related Cardiac Dysfunction
Milks M, Velez M, Mehta N, Ishola A, Van Houten T, Yildiz V, Reinbolt R, Lustberg M, Smith S, Orsinelli D. Usefulness of Integrating Heart Failure Risk Factors Into Impairment of Global Longitudinal Strain to Predict Anthracycline-Related Cardiac Dysfunction. The American Journal Of Cardiology 2018, 121: 867-873. PMID: 29454478, DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2017.12.022.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdultAnthracyclinesAntibiotics, AntineoplasticAntineoplastic Agents, ImmunologicalAtrial FibrillationAtrial FlutterBreast NeoplasmsCoronary Artery DiseaseDiabetes MellitusDoxorubicinEchocardiographyFemaleHeart FailureHumansHypertensionLogistic ModelsMiddle AgedRenal InsufficiencyReproducibility of ResultsRetrospective StudiesRisk AssessmentRisk FactorsStroke VolumeTrastuzumabVentricular DysfunctionConceptsCancer therapeutics-related cardiac dysfunctionGlobal longitudinal strainRisk factorsEchocardiographic variablesCardiac dysfunctionLongitudinal strainImaging assessmentCertain clinical risk factorsHeart failure risk factorsVentricular global longitudinal strainLeft ventricular longitudinal strainClinical risk factorsLV ejection fractionVentricular longitudinal strainHigh-risk groupRisk prediction toolsFailure risk factorsReceiver-operating characteristicClinical factorsEjection fractionOncologic treatmentLV functionRetrospective studyClinical variablesBreast cancer