ArticleJournal of palliative medicine2008
Improving access to hospice care: informing the debate.
Article in Journal of palliative medicine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Social Connectedness Among Nursing Home Residents with Dementia by Hospice Enrollment.The journal of nursing home research sciences · 2025Article
- A national study of disenrollment from hospice among people with dementia.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2022Observational
- Hospice Improves Care Quality For Older Adults With Dementia In Their Last Month Of Life.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2022Article
- End-of-life outcomes with or without early palliative care: a propensity score matched, population-based cancer cohort study.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Facility Placement as a Barrier to Hospice for Older Adult Patients Discharged From a Palliative Care Unit.The American journal of hospice & palliative care · 2019Article
- Planning for Future Care and the End of Life: A Qualitative Analysis of Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Couples.Journal of health and social behavior · 2017Article
- Predictors of Preference for Hospice Care Among Diverse Older Adults.The American journal of hospice & palliative care · 2016Article
- Building New Teams for Late Life Care: Lessons From LifeCourse.The American journal of hospice & palliative care · 2016Article
- Disparities in end of life care for elderly lung cancer patients.Journal of community health · 2014Article
- National hospice survey results: for-profit status, community engagement, and service.JAMA internal medicine · 2014Article
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- Perceptions about hospice from a community-based pilot study: lessons and findings.The American journal of hospice & palliative care · 2011Article
- Experiences of participants in a collaborative to develop performance measures for hospice care.Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety · 2011Article
- Facilitating needs based cancer care for people with a chronic disease: Evaluation of an intervention using a multi-centre interrupted time series design.BMC palliative care · 2010Article
- Hospice characteristics and the disenrollment of patients with cancer.Health services research · 2009Article
- Informal Hospice Caregiving: The Toll on Quality of Life.Journal of social work in end-of-life & palliative care · 2008Article
- Lessons from the field: challenges in accruing hospice heart failure patients to intervention research.The Journal of cardiovascular nursingArticle
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The most frequently cited policy solution for improving access to hospice care for patients and families is to expand hospice eligibility criteria under the Medicare Hospice Benefit. However, the substantial implications of such a policy change have not been fully articulated or evaluated. This paper seeks to identify and describe the implications of expanding Medicare Hospice Benefit eligibility on the nature of hospice care, the cost of hospice care to the Medicare program, and the very structure of hospice and palliative care delivery in the United States. The growth in hospice has been dramatic and the central issue facing policymakers and the hospice industry is defining the appropriate target population for hospice care. As policymakers and the hospice industry discuss the future of hospice and potential changes to the Medicare Hospice Benefit, it is critical to clearly delineate the options--and the implications and challenges of each option--for improving access to hospice care for patients and families.
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