… which dying patients receive care plays a crucial role in the quality of end-of-life (EOL)
care. … Maintaining high-grade quality of life and favorable end-of-life (EOL) care are major …

… files to determine enrollment in MA vs traditional Medicare in the last month of life. If an …
need switching from MA to traditional Medicare near end of life, we tested an expanded definition …

… medical centers discussed in this report substantially changed the intensity of the end-of-life …
The following sections discuss the care of Medicare beneficiaries near the end of life with …

… in end-of-life inpatient expenditures, we examined the use of major intensive services at
the end of life, … of decedents between 1985 and 1999 with surviving Medicare beneficiaries. …

… at the end of life by Medicare beneficiaries who died with poor-prognosis cancer. We also
studied the extent of care variation within and across hospital groups, defined by common …

… We focused on NCI/NCCN centers … centers’ minority and white-specific end-of-life quality
metrics and to test whether minority-serving cancer centers had systematically lower end-of-life …

… used the Medicare MedPAR file to measure acute care facility use during the last 30 days of
life; … From Medicare Hospice files, we measured hospice use and assessed late enrollment …

… patients approaching the end of life and to their families, 2 -4 the Medicare hospice benefit,
… percentage of Medicare beneficiaries who receive hospice services at the end of life, hospice …

… a We estimated the effects of Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment on end-of-life care using
an instrumental variable (IV) approach. We exploited a discontinuity in the rules governing …

… evaluated the intensity of end-of-life care provided by fee-for-service Medicare versus the
VA for … the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to investigate whether Medicare …