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Background
Patients with advanced gastrointestinal (GI) cancer often undergo noncurative interventions with palliative intent to relieve high symptom burden near end of life. Hospital‐level variation in intervention utilization remains unclear.
Methods
National cohort study of 142 304 patients with stage III or IV GI cancer within the National Cancer Database (2004–2014) who died within 1‐year...