End-of-life surgery may not reflect seniors’ needs, study finds | The Salt Lake Tribune: The odds of elderly Americans having surgery in their last year of life may have more to do with their age and where they live than whether they want or need the procedures, a study found. Almost one-third of the 1.8 million Medicare recipients who were at least 65 years old and died in 2008 had surgery in the year before their deaths, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health reported in a study published online today in the medical journal The Lancet. Many of the procedures probably failed to improve dying patients’ lives.
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