ArticleThe American journal of hospice & palliative care2013
Medical manuscripts impact of hospice enrollment on cost and length of stay of a terminal admission.
Article in The American journal of hospice & palliative care, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Duration of palliative care before death in international routine practice: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC medicine · 2020Pooled it
- A Randomized Controlled Trial of a CPR and Intubation Video Decision Support Tool for Hospitalized Patients.Journal of general internal medicine · 2015Trial
- From hospice to hospital: short-term follow-up study of hospice patient outcomes in a US acute care hospital surveillance system.BMJ open · 2014Article
- Patterns of hospice use in patients dying from hematologic malignancies.Journal of palliative medicine · 2014Article
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- The "good planning panel".The Hastings Center reportArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine whether hospice enrollment at the time of a terminal admission alters the length of stay (LOS) or costs compared with patients not enrolled in hospice.
methodsRetrospective chart review of all nontraumatic inpatient deaths of patients with a previous admission in the preceding 12 months at an academic hospital.
results209 patients had a nontraumatic death and an admission in the year prior to the terminal admission. Patients enrolled in hospice had a shorter LOS (P = .02) and lower cost (P < .0001) than patients not enrolled at the time of their terminal admission.
conclusionsEnrollment in hospice during a terminal admission decreased cost and LOS. Hospice may be a way to provide more cost-effective, appropriate care to dying patients.
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