ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2018
Quality of Hospice Care at Home Versus in an Assisted Living Facility or Nursing Home.
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- Hospice Composition Based on Diagnosis is Associated with Caregiver-Reported Quality Measures.The American journal of hospice & palliative care · 2022Article
- Association Between State Regulations Supportive of Third-party Services and Likelihood of Assisted Living Residents in the US Dying in Place.JAMA health forum · 2022Article
- Hospice Care Experiences Among Decedents With Huntington's Disease.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2022Article
- Hospice Improves Care Quality For Older Adults With Dementia In Their Last Month Of Life.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2022Article
- Service Availability in Assisted Living and Other Community-Based Residential Settings at the End of Life.Journal of palliative medicine · 2021Article
- Certificate-Of-Need Regulation and Healthcare Service Quality: Evidence from the Nursing Home Industry.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Protocol for an embedded pragmatic clinical trial to test the effectiveness of Aliviado Dementia Care in improving quality of life for persons living with dementia and their informal caregivers.Contemporary clinical trials · 2020Article
- Trends In Residential Setting And Hospice Use At The End Of Life For Medicare Decedents.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo describe differences in perceived quality of hospice care for individuals living at home or in a nursing home (NH) or assisted living facility (ALF) through analysis of after-death surveys of family members.
designRetrospective cohort study using hospice medical record data and Family Evaluation of Hospice Care (FEHC) survey data.
settingLarge, national hospice provider.
participantsIndividuals who died while receiving routine hospice care and family caregivers who completed after-death quality-of-care surveys. MEASUREMENTS: Survey results for 7,510 individuals were analyzed using analysis of variance and chi-square tests. Logistic regression was used to assess relationship between location of care and overall service quality.
resultsThe overall survey response rate was 27%; 34.5% of families of individuals in ALFs in hospice, 27.4% of those at home, and 22.9% of those in NHs returned the survey (P < .001). Differences in return rate according to primary diagnosis were significant, although differences were not large. Most (84.3%) respondents reported that hospice referral had occurred at the right time, and 63.4% rated service quality as excellent. Hospice care in the NH was less likely to be perceived as excellent.
conclusionThere were significant differences in characteristics of individuals whose family members did and did not return surveys, which has implications for use of after-death surveys to evaluate hospice quality. Lower perceived quality of hospice care in NHs may be related to general dissatisfaction with receiving care in this setting. Survey results have the potential to set priorities for quality improvement, choice of provider, and potentially reimbursement. Underlying causes of differences of perceived quality in different settings of care should be examined.
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