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UrduRutgers Institute for Health researcher finds that Black patients who leave hospice care and patients with short stays in hospice care are at increased risks for being admitted to a hospital after being discharged from hospice.
Tag: Hospice Care
Mount Sinai Researchers Study Pathways to Hospice Care Among Medicare Enrollees
In an original investigation published today in JAMA Health Forum, Mount Sinai researchers describe how older adults with Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are more likely to enter hospice care from the community settings, versus inpatient stays in hospitals and…
Researchers examine what happens when patients can choose concurrent dialysis and hospice care
Today, patients utilizing their Medicare Hospice Benefits with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) are forced to make the traumatic choice between continuing dialysis or enrolling in hospice.
Hospice Improves Quality of Care in Patients with Dementia
While the hospice program was originally designed for patients with cancer, who are expected to die within six months, currently close to half of older adult hospice enrollees have a diagnosis of dementia.
Hospices vary widely in prescribing of “comfort kit” medications
Hospices often prescribe medicines like Xanax, Haldol and Seroquel to patients to ease end-of-life symptoms, but a new study shows very wide variation in the chances patients will get these drugs.