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Characteristics of patients receiving hospice care services: United States, 1994.

OBJECTIVE This report presents data on current hospice care patients. Numbers and percents are shown by selected characteristics of the agencies from which the patients received services, by selected patient characteristics, by services provided, by types of personnel that provided the services, and by diagnoses of these patients. METHODS The data used for this report are from the National Ce...

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Measuring hospice care: the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization National Hospice Data Set.

Hospice has seen rapid growth in recent years, but there is a lack of consistency among hospices when it comes to compliance with standards of care. Consequently, hospices vary in performance and in services they provide. With state hospice organizations, the NHPCO developed a National Data Set (NDS) intended to understand demographics, practices, and outcomes; illustrate industry effectiveness...

Increased access to palliative care and hospice services: opportunities to improve value in health care.

CONTEXT A small proportion of patients with serious illness or multiple chronic conditions account for the majority of health care spending. Despite the high cost, evidence demonstrates that these patients receive health care of inadequate quality, characterized by fragmentation, overuse, medical errors, and poor quality of life. METHODS This article examines data demonstrating the impact of ...

Post-hospitalization Hospice Care Settings

Results: Hispanic patients were more likely to be discharged to home rather than a facilitybased hospice (OR 1.39). Single patients and divorced patients were less likely to be discharged to a home-based hospice setting (OR .79, .67). Older patients were more likely to be discharged to a facility-based hospice (OR .91). The presence of anemia, paralysis, neurological disorders and weight loss w...