"Palliative Care" as an Outcome Measure and Its Impact on Our Interpretation of Racial Disparities

Affiliations

• ¹ Center to Advance Palliative Care at the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine (R.H., B.C., A.S., B.B.), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA; Division of Geriatrics (K.S.J.), Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA; Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Center (K.S.J.), Veteran Affairs Health System, Durham, North Carolina, USA. Electronic address: Rachael.Heitner@mssm.edu.
• ² Center to Advance Palliative Care at the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine (R.H., B.C., A.S., B.B.), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA; Division of Geriatrics (K.S.J.), Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA; Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Center (K.S.J.), Veteran Affairs Health System, Durham, North Carolina, USA.