Hospice Care

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "It Is Like Heart Failure. It Is Chronic … and It Will Kill You": A Qualitative Analysis of Burnout Among Hospice and Palliative Care Clinicians. 
  • A Cohort Study of Patient-Reported Outcomes and Healthcare Utilization in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients Receiving Active Cancer Therapy in the Last Six Months of Life. 
  • A Review of Race and Ethnicity in Hospice and Palliative Medicine Research: Representation Matters. 
  • A Systems Approach to Improving Care for All Bereaved Families. 
  • A prospective cohort study assessing aggressive interventions at the end-of-life among patients with solid metastatic cancer. 
  • Accountable and Transparent Palliative Quality Measures Will Improve Care. 
  • Addressing Palliative Care Clinician Burnout in Organizations: A Workforce Necessity, an Ethical Imperative. 
  • Adherence to Measuring What Matters Measures Using Point-of-Care Data Collection Across Diverse Clinical Settings. 
  • Advance Care Planning Claims and Health Care Utilization Among Seriously Ill Patients Near the End of Life. 
  • Advance directives and end-of-life care preferences among adults in Wuhan, China: a cross-sectional study. 
  • 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. 
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis care and research in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges and opportunities. 
  • Antidepressant medication use in palliative care. 
  • Are Hospice Admission Practices Associated With Hospice Enrollment for Older African Americans and Whites? 
  • Are Trends in Hospitalization Prior to Hospice Use Associated With Hospice Episode Characteristics? 
  • Are supportive care-based treatment strategies preferable to standard chemotherapy in recurrent cervical cancer? 
  • Association Between Delivery System Structure and Intensity of End-of-Life Cancer Care. 
  • Association of hospice patients' income and care level with place of death. 
  • Barriers to Hospice Care in Trauma Patients: The Disparities in End-of-Life Care. 
  • Better Together: The Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group as a Model for Increasing Equity in the Science of Hospice and Palliative Care. 
  • Characterization of Death in Infants With Neonatal Seizures. 
  • Characterization of Death in Neonatal Encephalopathy in the Hypothermia Era. 
  • Characterizing the Hospice and Palliative Care Workforce in the U.S.: Clinician Demographics and Professional Responsibilities. 
  • Complexities of defibrillator deactivation. 
  • Concerns underlying treatment preferences of advanced cancer patients with children. 
  • Continuing Non-Invasive Ventilation During Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis-Related Hospice Care Is Medically, Administratively, and Financially Feasible. 
  • Cross Country Comparison of Expert Assessments of the Quality of Death and Dying 2021. 
  • Cultivating Cultural Competence: How Are Hospice Staff Being Educated to Engage Racially and Ethnically Diverse Patients? 
  • Cutaneous Metastasis of a Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma of the Pancreas: First Reported Case. 
  • Death service ratio: a measure of hospice utilization and cost impact. 
  • Delivery of Community-Based Palliative Care: Findings from a Time and Motion Study. 
  • Dementia assessment and management. 
  • Depression and Health Care Utilization at End of Life Among Older Adults With Advanced Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. 
  • Developing the evidence base for palliative care: formation of the Palliative Care Research Cooperative and its first trial. 
  • Differences Between For-profit and Non-profit Hospice Agencies in the US Medicare Population. 
  • Disparities in Asians' Hospice Utilization and Location of Death. 
  • Do Live Discharge Rates Increase as Hospices Approach Their Medicare Aggregate Payment Caps? 
  • EMPOWER: an intervention to address barriers to pain management in hospice. 
  • Early supportive medication use and end-of-life care among Medicare beneficiaries with advanced breast cancer. 
  • End-of-life Heart Failure Care in the United States. 
  • End-of-life care quality outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries with hematologic malignancies. 
  • Enhancing awareness of hospice through physician assisted living: public health perspectives. 
  • Establishing a regional, multisite database for quality improvement and service planning in community-based palliative care and hospice. 
  • Ethnic differences in the place of death of elderly hospice enrollees. 
  • Evaluating the Contribution of Patient-Provider Communication and Cancer Diagnosis to Racial Disparities in End-of-Life Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries. 
  • Evaluating the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Telehealth Program in a Rural Palliative Care Population: TapCloud for Palliative Care. 
  • Evolution in measuring the quality of dying. 
  • Factors Associated with Health Care Utilization at the End of Life for Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. 
  • Findings of Sequential Pilot Trials of Aliviado Dementia Care to Inform an Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trial. 
  • Hospice Care Preferences and Its Associated Factors among Community-Dwelling Residents in China. 
  • Hospice Care for Heart Failure: Challenges Faced by Hospice Staff in a Predominantly Rural Setting. 
  • Hospice Employees' Perceptions of Their Work Environment: A Focus Group Perspective. 
  • Hospice Use Among Patients With Cancer: Trends, Barriers, and Future Directions. 
  • Hospice education about people with AIDS as terminally ill patients: coping with a new epidemic of death. 
  • Hospice. Care when there is no cure. 
  • How Medicine Has Changed the End of Life for Patients With Cardiovascular Disease. 
  • Identifying Core Domains to Assess the "Quality of Death": A Scoping Review. 
  • Identifying high-risk surgical patients: A study of older adults whose code status changed to Do-Not-Resuscitate. 
  • Impact of Early Palliative Care on End-of-Life Outcomes in Hematologic Malignancies. 
  • Impact of a Formal Advance Care Planning Program on End-of-Life Care for Patients With Heart Failure: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • In the clinic. Palliative care. 
  • Incorporating palliative radiotherapy education into hospice and palliative medicine fellowship training: a feasibility study. 
  • Information Framing Reduces Initial Negative Attitudes in Cancer Patients' Decisions About Hospice Care. 
  • Instability in End-of-Life Care Preference Among Heart Failure Patients: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial in Singapore. 
  • Integrating palliative care information and hospice referral in medicaid primary care. 
  • Integrating the biopsychosocial model into quality measures in palliative care: a case for improving the hospice item set. 
  • Introduction to a New Special Series for the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management-Science in Action: Evidence and Opportunities for Palliative Care Across Diverse Populations and Care Settings. 
  • Is Risk-Standardized In-Hospital Stroke Mortality an Adequate Proxy for Risk-Standardized 30-Day Stroke Mortality Data? Findings From Get With The Guidelines-Stroke. 
  • Is a home-care network necessary to access the Medicare hospice benefit? 
  • 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". 
  • Maintaining the Momentum of Measuring What Matters: Overcoming Hurdles To Develop Electronic Clinical Quality Measures. 
  • Medicare Shared Savings ACOs and Hospice Care for Ischemic Stroke Patients. 
  • Medicare as insurance innovator: the case of hospice. 
  • Meeting Basic Needs: Social Supports and Services Provided by Hospice. 
  • Methodological Research Priorities in Palliative Care and Hospice Quality Measurement. 
  • Multidimensional Pain Inventory-Screening Chinese version (MPI-sC): psychometric testing in terminal cancer patients in Taiwan. 
  • NCCN Guidelines Insights: Palliative Care, Version 2.2017. 
  • National Trends in End-of-Life Care for Veterans With Advanced Cancer in the Veterans Health Administration: 2009 to 2016. 
  • National Trends in Hospice Facility Deaths in the United States, 2003-2017. 
  • Palliative and hospice care in gynecologic cancer: a review. 
  • Physician Decision-Making in the Setting of Advanced Illness: An Examination of Patient Disposition and Physician Religiousness. 
  • Policy Changes Key To Promoting Sustainability And Growth Of The Specialty Palliative Care Workforce. 
  • Predicting Length of Hospice Stay: An Application of Quantile Regression. 
  • Prevalence and Predictors of Burnout Among Hospice and Palliative Care Clinicians in the U.S. 
  • Provision of spiritual support to patients with advanced cancer by religious communities and associations with medical care at the end of life. 
  • Quality Improvement Pearls for the Palliative Care and Hospice Professional. 
  • Race and residence: intercounty variation in black-white differences in hospice use. 
  • Racial differences in hospice revocation to pursue aggressive care. 
  • Racial differences in location before hospice enrollment and association with hospice length of stay. 
  • Racial differences in self-reported exposure to information about hospice care. 
  • Racism in Palliative Care Research: We Still have a Ways to Go. 
  • Refining a checklist for reporting patient populations and service characteristics in hospice and palliative care research. 
  • Resource Use in the Last Year of Life Among Patients Who Died With Versus of Prostate Cancer. 
  • Review of Religious Variables in Advance Care Planning for End-of-Life Care: Consideration of Faith as a New Construct. 
  • Significant Morbidity and Mortality Among Hospitalized End-Stage Liver Disease Patients in Medicare. 
  • Standardization and Scaling of a Community-Based Palliative Care Model. 
  • Symptom burden of haematological malignancies as death approaches in a community palliative care service: a retrospective cohort study of a consecutive case series. 
  • Targeted investment improves access to hospice and palliative care. 
  • The Act of Hospice: Understanding a Family's Perception of Palliative Care--When You're Family. 
  • The Compliance of End-of-Life Care Preferences Among Older Adults and Its Facilitators and Barriers: A Scoping Review. 
  • The Implementation of Measuring What Matters in Research and Practice: Series Commentary. 
  • The Quality Improvement Environment: Results of the 2016 AAHPM/HPNA Membership Needs Assessment Survey. 
  • The benefits of expanded physician assistant practice in hospice and palliative medicine. 
  • The need for a Serious Illness Digital Ecosystem (SIDE) to improve outcomes for patients receiving palliative and hospice care. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Bereavement and Grief. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Caring for Serious Illness in Pregnancy. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About End-Stage Liver Disease. 
  • Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Spirituality in Serious Illness. 
  • Top Ten Tips for Palliative Care Clinicians Caring for Heart Failure Patients. 
  • Tracking Patients in Community-Based Palliative Care through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Healthcare Innovation Project. 
  • Transfusion dependence, use of hospice services, and quality of end-of-life care in leukemia. 
  • Trends and Characteristics of Medicare Hospice Beneficiaries in the USA. 
  • Trends in Hospice Discharge and Relative Outcomes Among Medicare Patients in the Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Registry. 
  • Trends in Place of Death for Individuals With Cardiovascular Disease in the United States. 
  • US Physicians Overwhelmingly Endorse Hospice as the Better Option for Most Patients at the End of Life. 
  • Update in Hospice and Palliative Care. 
  • Update in hospice and palliative care. 
  • Use of Hospital Referral Regions in Evaluating End-of-Life Care. 
  • Utilization of Hospice Services in a Population of Patients With Huntington's Disease. 
  • Utilization of hospice and predicted mortality risk among older patients hospitalized with heart failure: findings from GWTG-HF. 
  • What explains racial differences in the use of advance directives and attitudes toward hospice care? 
  • What is a Good Death? A Choice Experiment on Care Indicators for Patients at End of Life. 
  • What is different about patients with hematologic malignancies? A retrospective cohort study of cancer patients referred to a hospice research network. 
  • What length of hospice use maximizes reduction in medical expenditures near death in the US Medicare program? 
  • Where Children Die: Obstacles to Quality End-of-Life Care. 
  • Who is coordinating pediatric concurrent hospice care? 
  • Will Changes to Medicare Payment Rates Alter Hospice's Cost-Saving Ability? 
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  Keywords of People

  • Bolar, Erica, Consulting Associate in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • LeBlanc, Thomas William, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute