… To identify the most pressing health care policy issues related to end-of-life care, we present
… care patterns of people in the last stage of life. We identify three key trends in end-of-life care…

… If hospice care is reliably better care for persons nearing death, identifying these … care is
the criterion standard for end-of-life care, although the merits of hospice for persons living with …

… benefits altered end-of-life care for Medicare recipients? We examine patterns of utilization
of Medicarefinanced services in various periods before death, both for Medicare decedents …

… ) receive high-intensity (HI) medical care at the end-of-life (EOL). Previous population-level …
of palliative care (PC) provision. We evaluated prevalence and predictors of HI-EOL care in …

… is associated with differences in end-of-life (EOL) care patterns for children who underwent
… Child demographic and clinical characteristics and PPC consultation and EOL care patterns …

… proportion of all health care expenditure it is still … care at the end of life. The Department
of Health has estimated that the overall annual cost of end of life care to NHS and social care …

… records, changes in the patterns of documentation over time may … end of life care in a
neonatal intensive care unit. Although the death rate for newborns admitted to the intensive care …

… patterns of intensive end-of-life care explain geographic variation in … end-of-life care
patterns were able to explain nearly two-thirds of the extensive geographic variation in end-of-life …

… We evaluated outcomes and symptoms in children with solid tumors and compared patterns
of end-of-life care after implementation of a dedicated institutional pediatric palliative care (…

… The conclusions regarding end-of-life care had not changed substantially. … in end-of-life
care. There was evidence of uneven provision of services, and disruptive and ineffective care …