{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,10]],"date-time":"2026-09-10T01:42:01Z","timestamp":1789004521775,"version":"build-2803163510"},"reference-count":70,"publisher":"Springer Science and Business Media LLC","issue":"11","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2016,4,26]],"date-time":"2016-04-26T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1461628800000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["link.springer.com"],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Br J Cancer"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2016,5]]},"DOI":"10.1038\/bjc.2016.75","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,4,26]],"date-time":"2016-04-26T20:06:32Z","timestamp":1461701192000},"page":"1293-1302","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":49,"title":["Health service use and costs in the last 6 months of life in elderly decedents with a history of cancer: a comprehensive analysis from a health payer perspective"],"prefix":"10.1038","volume":"114","author":[{"name":"on behalf of the EOL-CC study authors","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Julia M","family":"Langton","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Rebecca","family":"Reeve","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Preeyaporn","family":"Srasuebkul","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Marion","family":"Haas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Rosalie","family":"Viney","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"David","family":"Currow","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sallie-Anne","family":"Pearson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,4,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"7411","DOI":"10.1200\/JCO.2005.16.493","volume":"23","author":"B Aabom","year":"2005","unstructured":"Aabom B, Kragstrup J, Vondeling H, Bakketeig LS, Stovring H (2005) Defining cancer patients as being in the terminal phase: who receives a formal diagnosis, and what are the effects? J Clin Oncol 23: 7411\u20137416.","journal-title":"J Clin Oncol"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"488","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jpainsymman.2012.02.024","volume":"45","author":"AP Abernethy","year":"2013","unstructured":"Abernethy AP, Currow DC, Shelby-James T, Rowett D, May F, Samsa GP, Hunt R, Williams H, Esterman A, Phillips PA (2013) Delivery strategies to optimize resource utilization and performance status for patients with advanced life-limiting illness: results from the \u2018palliative care trial\u2019 [ISRCTN 81117481]. J Pain Symptom Manage 45: 488\u2013505.","journal-title":"J Pain Symptom Manage"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"176","DOI":"10.1177\/0269216313493125","volume":"28","author":"U Almaawiy","year":"2014","unstructured":"Almaawiy U, Pond GR, Sussman J, Brazil K, Seow H (2014) Are family physician visits and continuity of care associated with acute care use at end-of-life? A population-based cohort study of homecare cancer patients. Palliat Med 28: 176\u2013183.","journal-title":"Palliat Med"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR4","unstructured":"Australian Government Department of Veterans\u2019 Affairs (DVA) (2010) Treatment population statistics: quarterly report\u2014December 2010."},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR5","unstructured":"Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) (2002) Health care usage and costs. A comparison of veterans and war widows and widowers with the rest of the community (Canberra, Australia). Report number: cat. no. PHE 42."},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR6","unstructured":"Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) (2010) Australia\u2019s health 2010 (AIHW). Australia's health series no. 10, cat. no. AUS122."},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"325","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1743-7563.2011.01502.x","volume":"7","author":"Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)","year":"2011","unstructured":"Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) (2011) Cancer in Australia: actual incidence and mortality data from 1982 to 2007 and projections to 2010. Asia Pac J Clin Oncol 7: 325\u2013338.","journal-title":"Asia Pac J Clin Oncol"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"29","DOI":"10.1111\/ajco.12062","volume":"9","author":"Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)","year":"2013","unstructured":"Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) (2013) Cancer survival and prevalence in Australia: period estimates from 1982 to 2010. Asia Pac J Clin Oncol 9: 29\u201339.","journal-title":"Asia Pac J Clin Oncol"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR9","unstructured":"Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) (2014) Palliative care services in Australia 2014 (Canberra, Australia) Cat. no. HWI 128."},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR10","unstructured":"Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) (2015) Age at death Available from http:\/\/www.aihw.gov.au\/deaths\/age-at-death\/ accessed July 2015."},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"2765","DOI":"10.1001\/jama.292.22.2765","volume":"292","author":"PB Bach","year":"2004","unstructured":"Bach PB, Schrag D, Begg CB (2004) Resurrecting treatment histories of dead patients: a study design that should be laid to rest. JAMA 292: 2765\u20132770.","journal-title":"JAMA"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR12","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"587","DOI":"10.1016\/S0140-6736(14)61596-8","volume":"385","author":"S Banerjee","year":"2014","unstructured":"Banerjee S (2014) Multimorbidity-older adults need health care that can count past one. Lancet 385: 587\u2013589.","journal-title":"Lancet"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR13","first-page":"004416","volume":"2015","author":"L Barbera","year":"2015","unstructured":"Barbera L, Seow H, Sutradhar R, Chu A, Burge F, Fassbender K, McGrail K, Lawson B, Liu Y, Pataky R, Potapov A (2015a) Quality Indicators of End-of-Life Care in Patients With Cancer: What Rate Is Right? J Oncol Pract JOP 2015: 004416.","journal-title":"J Oncol Pract JOP"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR14","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"341","DOI":"10.3747\/co.22.2636","volume":"22","author":"L Barbera","year":"2015","unstructured":"Barbera L, Seow H, Sutradhar R, Chu A, Burge F, Fassbender K, McGrail K, Lawson B, Liu Y, Pataky R, Potapov A (2015b) Quality of end-of-life cancer care in Canada: a retrospective four-province study using administrative health care data. Curr Oncol 22: 341\u2013355.","journal-title":"Curr Oncol"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR15","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"563","DOI":"10.1503\/cmaj.091187","volume":"182","author":"L Barbera","year":"2010","unstructured":"Barbera L, Taylor C, Dudgeon D (2010) Why do patients with cancer visit the emergency department near the end of life? C Can Med Assoc J 182: 563\u2013568.","journal-title":"C Can Med Assoc J"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR16","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"386","DOI":"10.1097\/01.mlr.0000255248.79308.41","volume":"45","author":"AE Barnato","year":"2007","unstructured":"Barnato AE, Herndon MB, Anthony DL, Gallagher PM, Skinner JS, Bynum JPW, Fisher ES (2007) Are regional variations in end-of-life care intensity explained by patient preferences?: A Study of the US Medicare Population. Med Care 45: 386\u2013393.","journal-title":"Med Care"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR17","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"c4863","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.c4863","volume":"341","author":"K Boyd","year":"2010","unstructured":"Boyd K, Murray SA (2010) Recognising and managing key transitions in end of life care. BMJ 341: c4863.","journal-title":"BMJ"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR18","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"184","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jad.2011.07.016","volume":"135","author":"AW Boyes","year":"2011","unstructured":"Boyes AW, Girgis A, D\u2019Este C, Zucca AC (2011) Flourishing or floundering? Prevalence and correlates of anxiety and depression among a population-based sample of adult cancer survivors 6 months after diagnosis. J Affect Disord 135: 184\u2013192.","journal-title":"J Affect Disord"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR19","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1133","DOI":"10.1002\/ijc.27711","volume":"132","author":"F Bray","year":"2013","unstructured":"Bray F, Ren JS, Masuyer E, Ferlay J (2013) Global estimates of cancer prevalence for 27 sites in the adult population in 2008. Int J Cancer 132: 1133\u20131145.","journal-title":"Int J Cancer"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR20","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"992","DOI":"10.1097\/00005650-200308000-00012","volume":"41","author":"F Burge","year":"2003","unstructured":"Burge F, Lawson B, Johnston G (2003) Family physician continuity of care and emergency department use in end-of-life cancer care. Med Care 41: 992\u20131001.","journal-title":"Med Care"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR21","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1203","DOI":"10.1097\/MLR.0b013e31817d931d","volume":"46","author":"FI Burge","year":"2008","unstructured":"Burge FI, Lawson BJ, Johnston GM, Grunfeld E (2008) A population-based study of age inequalities in access to palliative care among cancer patients. Med Care 46: 1203\u20131211.","journal-title":"Med Care"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR22","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"221","DOI":"10.1186\/1471-2458-8-221","volume":"8","author":"GE Caughey","year":"2008","unstructured":"Caughey GE, Vitry AI, Gilbert AL, Roughead EE (2008) Prevalence of comorbidity of chronic diseases in Australia. BMC Public Health 8: 221.","journal-title":"BMC Public Health"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR23","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"S54","DOI":"10.5694\/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02471.x","volume":"190","author":"DM Clarke","year":"2009","unstructured":"Clarke DM, Currie KC (2009) Depression, anxiety and their relationship with chronic diseases: a review of the epidemiology, risk and treatment evidence. Med J Aust 190: S54\u2013S60.","journal-title":"Med J Aust"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR24","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"424","DOI":"10.1186\/1472-6963-12-424","volume":"12","author":"DC Currow","year":"2012","unstructured":"Currow DC, Allingham S, Bird S, Yates P, Lewis J, Dawber J, Eagar K (2012) Referral patterns and proximity to palliative care inpatient services by level of socio-economic disadvantage. A national study using spatial analysis. BMC Health Serv Res 12: 424.","journal-title":"BMC Health Serv Res"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR25","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"2207","DOI":"10.1056\/NEJMra1204479","volume":"366","author":"VT DeVita","year":"2012","unstructured":"DeVita VT, Rosenberg SA (2012) Two hundred years of cancer research. N Engl J Med 366: 2207\u20132214.","journal-title":"N Engl J Med"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR26","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"505","DOI":"10.1093\/intqhc\/mzi061","volume":"17","author":"CC Earle","year":"2005","unstructured":"Earle CC, Neville BA, Landrum MB, Souza JM, Weeks JC, Block SD, Grunfeld E, Ayanian JZ (2005) Evaluating claims-based indicators of the intensity of end-of-life cancer care. Int J Qual Health Care 17: 505\u2013509.","journal-title":"Int J Qual Health Care"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR27","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1133","DOI":"10.1200\/JCO.2003.03.059","volume":"21","author":"CC Earle","year":"2003","unstructured":"Earle CC, Park ER, Lai B, Weeks JC, Ayanian JZ, Block S (2003) Identifying potential indicators of the quality of end-of-life cancer care from administrative data. J Clin Oncol 21: 1133\u20131138.","journal-title":"J Clin Oncol"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR28","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1722","DOI":"10.1001\/archinte.162.15.1722","volume":"162","author":"EJ Emanuel","year":"2002","unstructured":"Emanuel EJ, Ash A, Yu W, Gazelle G, Levinsky NG, Saynina O, McClellan M, Moskowitz M (2002) Managed care, hospice use, site of death, and medical expenditures in the last year of life. Arch Intern Med 162: 1722\u20131728.","journal-title":"Arch Intern Med"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR29","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"2893","DOI":"10.1002\/ijc.25516","volume":"127","author":"J Ferlay","year":"2010","unstructured":"Ferlay J, Shin HR, Bray F, Forman D, Mathers C, Parkin DM (2010) Estimates of worldwide burden of cancer in 2008: GLOBOCAN 2008. Int J Cancer 127: 2893\u20132917.","journal-title":"Int J Cancer"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR30","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"178","DOI":"10.1002\/jhm.2018","volume":"8","author":"S Fischer","year":"2013","unstructured":"Fischer S, Min S-J, Cervantes L, Kutner J (2013) Where do you want to spend your last days of life? Low concordance between preferred and actual site of death among hospitalized adults. J Hosp Med 8: 178\u2013183.","journal-title":"J Hosp Med"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR31","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"3458","DOI":"10.1200\/JCO.2004.06.111","volume":"22","author":"B Gagnon","year":"2004","unstructured":"Gagnon B, Mayo NE, Hanley J, MacDonald N (2004) Pattern of care at the end of life: does age make a difference in what happens to women with breast cancer? J Clin Oncol 22: 3458\u20133465.","journal-title":"J Clin Oncol"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR32","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"53","DOI":"10.1016\/j.healthpol.2010.03.002","volume":"97","author":"B Gielen","year":"2010","unstructured":"Gielen B, Remacle A, Mertens R (2010) Patterns of health care use and expenditure during the last 6 months of life in Belgium: differences between age categories in cancer and non-cancer patients. Health Policy (New York) 97: 53\u201361.","journal-title":"Health Policy (New York)"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR33","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"329","DOI":"10.1002\/gps.2343","volume":"25","author":"C Goodman","year":"2010","unstructured":"Goodman C, Evans C, Wilcock J, Froggatt K, Drennan V, Sampson E, Blanchard M, Bissett M, Iliffe S (2010) End of life care for community dwelling older people with dementia: an integrated review. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 25: 329\u2013337.","journal-title":"Int J Geriatr Psychiatry"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR34","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"2301","DOI":"10.1002\/cncr.23428","volume":"112","author":"E Grunfeld","year":"2008","unstructured":"Grunfeld E, Urquhart R, Mykhalovskiy E, Folkes A, Johnston G, Burge FI, Earle CC, Dent S (2008) Toward population-based indicators of quality end-of-life care: testing stakeholder agreement. Cancer 112: 2301\u20132308.","journal-title":"Cancer"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR35","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"65","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1365-2354.2005.00623.x","volume":"15","author":"JF Guest","year":"2006","unstructured":"Guest JF, Ruiz FJ, Greener MJ, Trotman IF (2006) Palliative care treatment patterns and associated costs of healthcare resource use for specific advanced cancer patients in the UK. Eur J Cancer Care (Engl) 15: 65\u201373.","journal-title":"Eur J Cancer Care (Engl)"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR36","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"2001","DOI":"10.1056\/NEJMp1509664","volume":"373","author":"SD Halpern","year":"2015","unstructured":"Halpern SD (2015) Toward Evidence-Based End-of-Life Care. N Engl J Med. 373: 2001\u20132003.","journal-title":"N Engl J Med."},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR37","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1587","DOI":"10.1200\/JCO.2010.31.9897","volume":"29","author":"TH Ho","year":"2011","unstructured":"Ho TH, Barbera L, Saskin R, Lu H, Neville BA, Earle CC (2011) Trends in the aggressiveness of end-of-life cancer care in the universal health care system of Ontario, Canada. J Clin Oncol 29: 1587\u20131591.","journal-title":"J Clin Oncol"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR38","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"75","DOI":"10.1007\/s00520-012-1495-7","volume":"21","author":"SD Lambert","year":"2013","unstructured":"Lambert SD, Girgis A, Lecathelinais C, Stacey F (2013) Walking a mile in their shoes: anxiety and depression among partners and caregivers of cancer survivors at 6 and 12 months post-diagnosis. Support Care Cancer 21: 75\u201385.","journal-title":"Support Care Cancer"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR39","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1167","DOI":"10.1177\/0269216314533813","volume":"28","author":"JM Langton","year":"2014","unstructured":"Langton JM, Blanch B, Drew AK, Haas M, Ingham JM, Pearson S-A (2014) Retrospective studies of end-of-life resource utilization and costs in cancer care using health administrative data: A systematic review. Palliat Med 28: 1167\u20131196.","journal-title":"Palliat Med"},{"issue":"Suppl 1","key":"BFbjc201675_CR40","first-page":"p 352","volume":"22","author":"JM Langton","year":"2013","unstructured":"Langton JM, Srasuebkul P, Buckley NA, Pearson S-A (2013) Prescription drug use in the last 12 months of life: Observations in a cohort of elderly patients. Proceedings of the Abstracts of the 29th International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology & Therapeutic Risk Management 25\u201328 August 2013; Montr\u00e9al, Canada. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety 22 (Suppl 1): p 352.","journal-title":"Proceedings of the Abstracts of the 29th International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology & Therapeutic Risk Management"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR41","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"25","DOI":"10.1186\/s13012-014-0148-2","volume":"10","author":"JM Langton","year":"2015","unstructured":"Langton JM, Srasuebkul P, Reeve R, Parkinson B, Gu Y, Buckley NA, Haas M, Viney R, Pearson S-A (2015) Resource use, costs and quality of end of life care: Observations in a cohort of elderly Australian cancer decedents. Implement Sci 10: 25.","journal-title":"Implement Sci"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR42","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"751","DOI":"10.1089\/jpm.2010.0504","volume":"14","author":"A Legler","year":"2011","unstructured":"Legler A, Bradley EH, Carlson MDA (2011) The effect of comorbidity burden on health care utilization for patients with cancer using hospice. J Palliat Med 14: 751\u2013756.","journal-title":"J Palliat Med"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR43","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1349","DOI":"10.1001\/jama.286.11.1349","volume":"286","author":"NG Levinsky","year":"2001","unstructured":"Levinsky NG, Yu W, Ash A, Moskowitz M, Gazelle G, Saynina O, Emanuel EJ (2001) Influence of age on Medicare expenditures and medical care in the last year of life. JAMA 286: 1349\u20131355.","journal-title":"JAMA"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR44","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"223","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jclinepi.2010.02.015","volume":"64","author":"CY Lu","year":"2011","unstructured":"Lu CY, Barratt J, Vitry A, Roughead E (2011) Charlson and Rx-Risk comorbidity indices were predictive of mortality in the Australian health care setting. J Clin Epidemiol 64: 223\u2013228.","journal-title":"J Clin Epidemiol"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR45","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1108","DOI":"10.1046\/j.1532-5415.2002.50268.x","volume":"50","author":"JR Lunney","year":"2002","unstructured":"Lunney JR, Lynn J, Hogan C (2002) Profiles of older medicare decedents. J Am Geriatr Soc 50: 1108\u20131112.","journal-title":"J Am Geriatr Soc"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR46","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"774","DOI":"10.1089\/jpm.2012.0403","volume":"16","author":"BA McNamara","year":"2013","unstructured":"McNamara BA, Rosenwax LK, Murray K, Currow DC (2013) Early admission to community-based palliative care reduces use of emergency departments in the ninety days before death. J Palliat Med 16: 774\u2013779.","journal-title":"J Palliat Med"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR47","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"74","DOI":"10.1186\/1472-6963-6-74","volume":"6","author":"RE Moorin","year":"2006","unstructured":"Moorin RE, Holman CDJ (2006) The effects of socioeconomic status, accessibility to services and patient type on hospital use in Western Australia: a retrospective cohort study of patients with homogenous health status. BMC Health Serv Res 6: 74.","journal-title":"BMC Health Serv Res"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR48","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1007","DOI":"10.1136\/bmj.330.7498.1007","volume":"330","author":"SA Murray","year":"2005","unstructured":"Murray SA, Kendall M, Boyd K, Sheikh A (2005) Illness trajectories and palliative care. BMJ 330: 1007\u20131011.","journal-title":"BMJ"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR49","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"e004099","DOI":"10.1136\/bmjopen-2013-004099","volume":"4","author":"S-A Pearson","year":"2014","unstructured":"Pearson S-A, Schaffer A (2014) The use and impact of cancer medicines in routine clinical care: methods and observations in a cohort of elderly Australians. BMJ Open 4: e004099.","journal-title":"BMJ Open"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR50","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"47","DOI":"10.1016\/j.colegn.2010.04.007","volume":"17","author":"JL Phillips","year":"2010","unstructured":"Phillips JL, Currow DC (2010) Cancer as a chronic disease. Collegian 17: 47\u201350.","journal-title":"Collegian"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR51","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1720","DOI":"10.1016\/j.socscimed.2006.04.018","volume":"63","author":"JJ Polder","year":"2006","unstructured":"Polder JJ, Barendregt JJ, van Oers H (2006) Health care costs in the last year of life\u2014the Dutch experience. Soc Sci Med 63: 1720\u20131731.","journal-title":"Soc Sci Med"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR52","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"200","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jpainsymman.2004.05.003","volume":"28","author":"B Pyenson","year":"2004","unstructured":"Pyenson B, Connor S, Fitch K, Kinzbrunner B (2004) Medicare cost in matched hospice and non-hospice cohorts. J Pain Symptom Manag 28: 200\u2013210.","journal-title":"J Pain Symptom Manag"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR53","unstructured":"Reeve R, Haas M (2014) Estimating the cost of Emergency Department presentations in NSW, CHERE Working Paper."},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR54","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"439","DOI":"10.1191\/0269216306pm1146oa","volume":"20","author":"LK Rosenwax","year":"2006","unstructured":"Rosenwax LK, McNamara BA (2006) Who receives specialist palliative care in Western Australia\u2014and who misses out. Palliat Med 20: 439\u2013445.","journal-title":"Palliat Med"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR55","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"570","DOI":"10.5694\/j.1326-5377.2011.tb03106.x","volume":"194","author":"LK Rosenwax","year":"2011","unstructured":"Rosenwax LK, McNamara BA, Murray K, McCabe RJ, Aoun SM, Currow DC (2011) Hospital and emergency department use in the last year of life: a baseline for future modifications to end-of-life care. Med J Aust 194: 570\u2013573.","journal-title":"Med J Aust"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR56","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"204","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jpainsymman.2015.10.008","volume":"51","author":"H Seow","year":"2016","unstructured":"Seow H, Barbera L, Pataky R, Lawson B, O\u2019Leary E, Fassbender K, McGrail K, Burge F, Brouwers M, Sutradhar R (2016) Does increasing homecare nursing reduce emergency department visits at the end of life? a population-based cohort study of cancer decedents. J Pain Symptom Manage 51: 204\u2013212.","journal-title":"J Pain Symptom Manage"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR57","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"5671","DOI":"10.1200\/JCO.2008.16.3956","volume":"26","author":"S Setoguchi","year":"2008","unstructured":"Setoguchi S, Earle CC, Glynn R, Stedman M, Polinski JM, Corcoran CP, Haas JS (2008) Comparison of prospective and retrospective indicators of the quality of end-of-life cancer care. J Clin Oncol 26: 5671\u20135678.","journal-title":"J Clin Oncol"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR58","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"139","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ahj.2010.03.038","volume":"160","author":"S Setoguchi","year":"2010","unstructured":"Setoguchi S, Glynn RJ, Stedman M, Flavell CM, Levin R, Stevenson LW (2010) Hospice, opiates, and acute care service use among the elderly before death from heart failure or cancer. Am Heart J 160: 139\u2013144.","journal-title":"Am Heart J"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR59","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"214","DOI":"10.1089\/jwh.2006.0012","volume":"16","author":"LR Shugarman","year":"2007","unstructured":"Shugarman LR, Bird CE, Schuster CR, Lynn J (2007) Age and gender differences in Medicare expenditures at the end of life for colorectal cancer decedents. J Women\u2019s Heal 16: 214\u2013227.","journal-title":"J Women\u2019s Heal"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR60","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"199","DOI":"10.1016\/j.whi.2008.02.008","volume":"18","author":"LR Shugarman","year":"2008","unstructured":"Shugarman LR, Bird CE, Schuster CR, Lynn J (2008) Age and gender differences in medicare expenditures and service utilization at the end of life for lung cancer decedents. Womens Heal Issues 18: 199\u2013209.","journal-title":"Womens Heal Issues"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR61","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"9","DOI":"10.3322\/caac.21208","volume":"64","author":"R Siegel","year":"2014","unstructured":"Siegel R, Ma J, Zou Z, Jemal A (2014) Cancer statistics, 2014. CA Cancer J Clin 64: 9\u201329.","journal-title":"CA Cancer J Clin"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR62","first-page":"761","volume":"41","author":"KL Sloan","year":"2003","unstructured":"Sloan KL, Sales AE, Liu C-F, Fishman P, Nichol P, Suzuki NT, Sharp ND (2003) Construction and characteristics of the RxRisk-V: a VA-adapted pharmacy-based case-mix instrument. Med Care 41: 761\u2013774.","journal-title":"Med Care"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR63","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"933","DOI":"10.1016\/S1470-2045(11)70141-3","volume":"12","author":"R Sullivan","year":"2011","unstructured":"Sullivan R, Peppercorn J, Sikora K, Zalcberg J, Meropol NJ, Amir E, Khayat D, Boyle P, Autier P, Tannock IF, Fojo T, Siderov J, Williamson S, Camporesi S, McVie JG, Purushotham AD, Naredi P, Eggermont A, Brennan MF, Steinberg ML, De Ridder M, McCloskey SA, Verellen D, Roberts T, Storme G, Hicks RJ, Ell PJ, Hirsch BR, Carbone DP, Schulman KA, Catchpole P, Taylor D, Geissler J, Brinker NG, Meltzer D, Kerr D, Aapro M (2011) Delivering affordable cancer care in high-income countries. Lancet Oncol 12: 933\u2013980.","journal-title":"Lancet Oncol"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR64","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1288","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jclinepi.2004.03.012","volume":"57","author":"V Sundararajan","year":"2004","unstructured":"Sundararajan V, Henderson T, Perry C, Muggivan A, Quan H, Ghali WA (2004) New ICD-10 version of the Charlson comorbidity index predicted in-hospital mortality. J Clin Epidemiol 57: 1288\u20131294.","journal-title":"J Clin Epidemiol"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR65","first-page":"2493","volume":"307","author":"ME Tinetti","year":"2012","unstructured":"Tinetti ME, Fried TR, Boyd CM (2012) Designing health care for the most common chronic condition\u2014multimorbidity. JAMA 307: 2493\u20132494.","journal-title":"JAMA"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR66","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"179","DOI":"10.1186\/1472-6963-12-179","volume":"12","author":"LR Tooth","year":"2012","unstructured":"Tooth LR, Hockey R, Treloar S, McClintock C, Dobson A (2012) Does government subsidy for costs of medical and pharmaceutical services result in higher service utilization by older widowed women in Australia? BMC Health Serv Res 12: 179.","journal-title":"BMC Health Serv Res"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR67","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"2","DOI":"10.1186\/1472-684X-14-2","volume":"14","author":"R Urquhart","year":"2015","unstructured":"Urquhart R, Johnston G, Abdolell M, Porter GA (2015) Patterns of health care utilization preceding a colorectal cancer diagnosis are strong predictors of dying quickly following diagnosis. BMC Palliat Care 14: 2.","journal-title":"BMC Palliat Care"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR68","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"73","DOI":"10.1097\/00005650-200201000-00010","volume":"40","author":"BA Virnig","year":"2002","unstructured":"Virnig BA, Marshall McBean A, Kind S, Dholakia R (2002) Hospice use before death: variability across cancer diagnoses. Med Care 40: 73\u201378.","journal-title":"Med Care"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR69","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"643","DOI":"10.1038\/ncponc0978","volume":"4","author":"KR Yabroff","year":"2007","unstructured":"Yabroff KR, Warren JL, Brown ML (2007) Costs of cancer care in the USA: a descriptive review. Nat Clin Pract Oncol 4: 643\u2013656.","journal-title":"Nat Clin Pract Oncol"},{"key":"BFbjc201675_CR70","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"480","DOI":"10.1001\/archinternmed.2008.587","volume":"169","author":"B Zhang","year":"2009","unstructured":"Zhang B, Wright AA, Huskamp HA, Nilsson ME, Maciejewski ML, Earle CC, Block SD, Maciejewski PK, Prigerson HG (2009) Health care costs in the last week of life associations with end-of-life conversations. Arch Intern Med 169: 480\u2013488.","journal-title":"Arch Intern Med"}],"container-title":["British Journal of Cancer"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/bjc201675.pdf","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/bjc201675","content-type":"text\/html","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/bjc201675.pdf","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,18]],"date-time":"2023-05-18T13:36:46Z","timestamp":1684417006000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/bjc201675"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2016,4,26]]},"references-count":70,"journal-issue":{"issue":"11","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2016,5]]}},"alternative-id":["BFbjc201675"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/bjc.2016.75","relation":{},"ISSN":["0007-0920","1532-1827"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0007-0920","type":"print"},{"value":"1532-1827","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2016,4,26]]},"assertion":[{"value":"7 July 2015","order":1,"name":"received","label":"Received","group":{"name":"ArticleHistory","label":"Article History"}},{"value":"27 November 2015","order":2,"name":"revised","label":"Revised","group":{"name":"ArticleHistory","label":"Article History"}},{"value":"4 December 2015","order":3,"name":"accepted","label":"Accepted","group":{"name":"ArticleHistory","label":"Article History"}},{"value":"26 April 2016","order":4,"name":"first_online","label":"First Online","group":{"name":"ArticleHistory","label":"Article History"}},{"value":"The Australian Government Department of Veterans\u2019 Affairs is the copyright owner of the data presented in this manuscript (including all tables, figures and supplementary content) and the authors have obtained permission from the Australian Government Department of Veterans\u2019 Affairs to publish this manuscript. The views expressed in this version of the work do not necessarily represent the views of the Minister for Veterans\u2019 Affairs or the Department of Veterans\u2019 Affairs. The Commonwealth does not give any warranty nor accept any liability in relation to the contents of this work.","order":1,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Competing interests"}}]}}