Racial differences in palliative care and hospice among adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Respir Med. 2024 Sep:231:107719. doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2024.107719. Epub 2024 Jun 20.

Authors

Natalia Smirnova¹, Sarah H Cross², Amanda Light³, Dio Kavalieratos²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. Electronic address: nsmirn2@emory.edu.
² Division of Palliative Medicine, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
³ College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

PMID: 38908412
PMCID: PMC11298293 (available on 2025-09-01)
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2024.107719

No abstract available

Keywords: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; End of life; Hospice care; Palliative care; Racial disparities.

MeSH terms

Aged
Black or African American
Female
Healthcare Disparities / ethnology
Hospice Care*
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Palliative Care*
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive* / ethnology
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive* / therapy
United States / epidemiology
White

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