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Jan 1, 2010

Physician Factors Associated with Discussions About End-of-Life Care

Most physicians report they would not discuss end-of-life options with terminally ill patients who are feeling well, instead waiting for symptoms or until there are no more treatments to offer.
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Jan 1, 2010

Hospice Use and High-Intensity Care in Men Dying of Prostate Cancer

This study assessed hospice use by men dying of prostate cancer and compared the use of high-intensity care between those who did or did not enroll in hospice. Those who enroll in hospice are less likely to receive high-intensity end-of-life care.
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Sep 11, 2009

Collateral Damage in the Ruckus Over Healthcare Reform

What can you choose when life restricts you to the narrow width of a hospital bed and your view is one of life's final horizon, ask Steven M. Asch, Karl Lorenz, and Diane Meier.
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May 1, 2009

Discussions with Physicians About Hospice Among Patients with Metastatic Lung Cancer

Discussing hospice with a health care provider could increase awareness of hospice and possibly result in earlier use.
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Jan 1, 2009

Demographic and Social Characteristics and Spending at the End of Life

In the United States and abroad, the aging of the population and changes in its demographic and social composition raise important considerations for the future of health care and the systems that pay for care.
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Jan 1, 2009

The Impact of Late-Life Parental Death on Adult Sibling Relationships: Do Parents' Advance Directives Help or Hurt?

The authors examined whether the effect of parental death on adults siblings' relationship quality varies on the basis of the presence and perceived effectiveness of a deceased parent's formal preparations for end-of-life care.
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Jan 1, 2009

Hospice and Emergency Room Use by Disadvantaged Men Dying of Prostate Cancer

Hospice care has been found to improve symptom management, quality of death and quality of life at the end of life.
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Jan 1, 2009

The Medicare Hospice Payment System: A Consideration of Potential Refinements

The purpose of this article is to examine variation in resource utilization across and within patient stays in the context of Medicare's per diem payment system for hospice.
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Jan 1, 2009

Inter-vivos Giving By Older People in the United States: Who Received Financial Gifts from the Childless?

Using data for 1996 to 2004 from the United States Health and Retirement Study, this article examines the differences between parents and childless older people in financial transfers to people other than their children.
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Nov 29, 2008

The potential cost savings of greater use of home- and hospice- based end of life care in England

Expansion of home/community end of life services can reduce acute care costs and benefit patients by accommodating expressed preferences on place of death.
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Sep 1, 2008

Paying the Price at the End of Life: A Consideration of Factors That Affect the Profitability of Hospice

Evaluates factors that affect the financial performance of hospice.
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Feb 26, 2008

"Serious and Complex Illness" in Quality Improvement and Policy Reform for End-of-Life Care

Proposes a new category for public policy and clinical quality improvement, "persons who will die as a result of serious and complex illness," a population for whom delivery system changes could ensure reliable, continuous, and competent care.

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