Hospice Use Among Nursing Home and Non-Nursing Home Patients

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 193-198

  Unroe, Kathleen T ^a,b,c,e   Sachs, Greg A ^a,b,c,e   Dennis, M E ^b   Hickman, Susan E ^d,e   Stump, Timothy E ^c   Tu, Wanzhu ^a,b   Callahan, Christopher M ^a,b,c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR AGING RESEARCH   (United States)

^b REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

costs; hospice; nursing home

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART DISEASE; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPICE PATIENT; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; NEOPLASM; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PATIENT; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPICE; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPICES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; NURSING HOMES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84925484259     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-014-3080-x     Document Type: Article

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