A Working Hospice in Tennessee
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Medicare cost in matched hospice and non-hospice cohorts.
Hospice care is perceived as enhancing life quality for patients with advanced, incurable illness, but cost comparisons to non-hospice patients are difficult to make. The very large Medicare expenditures for care given during the end of life, combined with the pressure on Medicare spending, make this information important. We sought to identify cost differences between patients who do and do no...
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PURPOSE In order to provide effective hospice care, adequate length of survival (LOS) in hospice is necessary. However the reported average LOS is much shorter. Analysis of LOS in hospice has not been reported from Korea. We evaluated the duration of LOS and the factors associated with LOS at our hospice center. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively examined 446 patients who were admitted ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0368-2811,1465-3621
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jjco.a023209