Risk Factors for Return to the Emergency Department and Readmission in Patients With Hospital-Diagnosed Advanced Lung Cancer

*Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine

†Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

‡Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

This research was partially supported by a National Research Service Award Post-Doctoral Traineeship from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality sponsored by The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Grant No. T32-HS000032. This research was also supported by the Lung Cancer Initiative of North Carolina Research Fellowship Program. The database infrastructure used for this project was funded by the CER Strategic Initiative of UNC’s Clinical &Translational Science Award (UL1TR002489), the UNC School of Medicine, and the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center’s University Cancer Research Fund (UCRF) via the State of North Carolina. Funding sources had no role in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication.

This work was previously presented at the ASCO Quality Care Symposium, San Diego, California, September 2019.

This study used the linked SEER-Medicare database. The interpretation and reporting of these data are the sole responsibility of the authors.

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Correspondence to: Emily M. Ray, MD, MPH, UNC Division of Oncology, 170 Manning Drive, CB 7305, Chapel Hill, NC 27599. E-mail: [email protected].

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