Hospices

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Positive Association Between Hospice Profit Margin And The Rate At Which Patients Are Discharged Before Death. 
  • A Prospective Cohort Study of Stability in Preferred Place of Death Among Patients With Stage IV Cancer in Singapore. 
  • A Review of Race and Ethnicity in Hospice and Palliative Medicine Research: Representation Matters. 
  • Accountable and Transparent Palliative Quality Measures Will Improve Care. 
  • Advanced imaging and hospice use in end-of-life cancer care. 
  • African Americans With Advanced Heart Failure Are More Likely to Die in a Health Care Facility Than at Home or in Hospice: An Analysis From the PAL-HF Trial. 
  • Are Hospice Admission Practices Associated With Hospice Enrollment for Older African Americans and Whites? 
  • Assessing post-discharge costs of hepatopancreatic surgery: an evaluation of Medicare expenditure. 
  • Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. 
  • Association of hospice patients' income and care level with place of death. 
  • Better Together: The Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group as a Model for Increasing Equity in the Science of Hospice and Palliative Care. 
  • Characteristics and outcomes of hospice enrollees with dementia discharged alive. 
  • Characterizing hospice discharge patterns in a nationally representative sample of the elderly, 1993-2000. 
  • Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes Associated With Oral Anticoagulant Use Among Patients Hospitalized With Intracerebral Hemorrhage. 
  • Clinical update on nursing home medicine: 2014. 
  • Complexities of defibrillator deactivation. 
  • Concerns underlying treatment preferences of advanced cancer patients with children. 
  • Cultivating Cultural Competence: How Are Hospice Staff Being Educated to Engage Racially and Ethnically Diverse Patients? 
  • Determining the Association Between End-of-Life Care Resources and Patient Outcomes in Pennsylvania ICUs. 
  • Differences Between For-profit and Non-profit Hospice Agencies in the US Medicare Population. 
  • Disparities in Asians' Hospice Utilization and Location of Death. 
  • Disparities in place of death for patients with primary brain tumors and brain metastases in the USA. 
  • Do Live Discharge Rates Increase as Hospices Approach Their Medicare Aggregate Payment Caps? 
  • EMPOWER: an intervention to address barriers to pain management in hospice. 
  • Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Place of Death Among Medicaid and Commercially Insured Patients With Cancer in Washington State. 
  • Enrollment and events of hospice patients with heart failure vs. cancer. 
  • Evaluating for disparities in place of death for head and neck cancer patients in the United States utilizing the CDC WONDER database. 
  • Factors that influence the presence of a hospice in a rural community. 
  • Findings of Sequential Pilot Trials of Aliviado Dementia Care to Inform an Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trial. 
  • High-technology and hospice home care. Strange bedfellows. 
  • Hospice Access and Scope of Services for Undocumented Immigrants: A Clinician Survey. 
  • Hospice Access for Undocumented Immigrants. 
  • Hospice Admission and Survival After ¹⁸ F-Fluoride PET Performed for Evaluation of Osseous Metastatic Disease in the National Oncologic PET Registry. 
  • Hospice Employees' Perceptions of Their Work Environment: A Focus Group Perspective. 
  • Hospice Use Among Patients With Cancer: Trends, Barriers, and Future Directions. 
  • Hospice in North Carolina: background and unanswered questions. 
  • Hospice policy and patterns of care. 
  • Hospice. Care when there is no cure. 
  • Impact of Early Palliative Care on End-of-Life Outcomes in Hematologic Malignancies. 
  • Integrating the biopsychosocial model into quality measures in palliative care: a case for improving the hospice item set. 
  • Is there no place like home? Caregivers recall reasons for and experience upon transfer from home hospice to inpatient facilities. 
  • It Is Time to Discuss Dying. 
  • Letter to the Editor Regarding "Prevalence and Predictors of Burnout Among Hospice and Palliative Care Professionals". 
  • MELD-Na Accurately Predicts 6-Month Mortality in Patients With Decompensated Cirrhosis: Potential Trigger for Hospice Referral. 
  • National Trends in Hospice Facility Deaths in the United States, 2003-2017. 
  • Patient symptoms and family coping. Predictors of hospice utilization patterns. 
  • Patient, Caregiver, and Taxpayer Knowledge of Palliative Care and Views on a Model of Community-Based Palliative Care. 
  • Place of death for patients with cancer in the United States, 1999 through 2015: Racial, age, and geographic disparities. 
  • Predicting non-home discharge in epithelial ovarian cancer patients: External validation of a predictive model. 
  • Prevalence and Predictors of Burnout Among Hospice and Palliative Care Clinicians in the U.S. 
  • Prevalence and Predictors of Burnout Among Hospice and Palliative Care Clinicians in the U.S. 
  • Quality of care in home health agencies with and without accreditation: a cohort study. 
  • Racial differences in hospice use and patterns of care after enrollment in hospice among Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure. 
  • Racial differences in the growth of noncancer diagnoses among hospice enrollees. 
  • Resource use in the last 6 months of life among medicare beneficiaries with heart failure, 2000-2007. 
  • Response to the letter to the editor by Matthew Raider, "hospice in the nursing home: perspective of a medical director". 
  • The benefits of expanded physician assistant practice in hospice and palliative medicine. 
  • The changing face of the hospice industry: what really matters? 
  • The evolution of volunteerism and professional staff within hospice care in North Carolina. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Caring for Serious Illness in Pregnancy. 
  • Trends and Characteristics of Medicare Hospice Beneficiaries in the USA. 
  • Trends and Factors Associated with Place of Death for Individuals with Dementia in the United States. 
  • Update in Hospice and Palliative Care. 
  • What are Hospice Providers in the Carolinas Doing to Reach African Americans in Their Service Area? 
  • What is different about patients with hematologic malignancies? A retrospective cohort study of cancer patients referred to a hospice research network. 
  • Where Adults with Congenital Heart Disease Die: Insights from the CDC-WONDER Database. 
  • Who is coordinating pediatric concurrent hospice care? 
  • Will Changes to Medicare Payment Rates Alter Hospice's Cost-Saving Ability? 
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  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine