Physician characteristics strongly predict patient enrollment in hospice

Health Affairs

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 993-1000

  Obermeyer, Ziad ^a,b   Powers, Brian W ^b   Makar, Maggie ^a   Keating, Nancy L ^a,b   Cutler, David M ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; COMORBIDITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGIST; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICARE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; RACE; SEX; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; ECONOMICS; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERMINAL CARE; TIME FACTOR; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICARE; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TERMINAL CARE; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84930884761     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2014.1055     Document Type: Article

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