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| The effect of inpatient hospice units on hospice use post-admission | | Author(s) | Sara E Erickson, Terri R Fried, Emily Cherlin |
| Journal title | Home Health Care Services Quarterly, vol 21, no 2, 2002 |
| Pages | pp 73-83 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Terminal care ; Admission [hospitals] ; Usage [services] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This study determined whether having a hospice unit within the hospital increases the proportion of terminally ill patients who use hospice services post-admission. Medical record data abstracted for 232 randomly selected patients with terminal cancer admitted to six community hospitals in Connecticut was used. It was found that patients admitted to a hospital with a hospice unit were more likely to use hospice services post-admission than patients admitted to a hospital without a hospice unit. This effect persisted after adjustment for patient age, gender, marital status, documented discussions of prognosis, prior hospice use and type of cancer. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-021126203 A |
| Classmark | LV: LD:QKH: QLD: 7T |
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