Hospice use before death: Variability across cancer diagnoses

Medical Care

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 73-78

  Virnig, Beth A ^a   McBean, A Marshall ^a   Kind, Sara ^a   Dholakia, Rishi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Hospice; Medicare; Mortality

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLASSIFICATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPICE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPICES; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICARE; NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 0036133898     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-200201000-00010     Document Type: Article

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