… patterns and determinants of end-of-life care among older … health care utilization at the end
of life, including hospitalization, intensive … the end-of-life care practices among older Medicare …

… This clinical demonstration project, funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services Innovations Center, places a registered nurse in each nursing facility to implement an …

Background & Aims There has been increased attention on ways to improve the quality of
end-of-life care for patients with end-stage liver disease; however, there have been few reports …

… of aggressive care at the end of life, little literature exists … Methods: Deceased Medicare
beneficiaries age ≥65 years … and tabulated from Medicare claims during the last 6 months of life. …

… AM Trends in inpatient treatment intensity among Medicare beneficiaries at the end of life. …
AM Trends in inpatient treatment intensity among Medicare beneficiaries at the end of life. …

… We used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare database to … Medicare
part A and B six-months before diagnosis and not in managed care for the last 30 days of life…

… receiving intensive life-sustaining treatments among Medicare … We hypothesized that Medicare
beneficiaries with dementia (… likely to receive life-sustaining treatments at the end of life, …

… Most importantly, by confirming that regional factors exert a real and independent influence
on the care that individuals receive at the end of life, this study emphasizes the need to …

… We explored cancer centers’ EOL quality outcomes among minority and … centers had
systematically lower EOL quality. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of Medicare …

… now die while covered by Medicare. In 2000, the average life expectancy for Americans was
… , our analysis deliberately highlighted evidence that illuminated the end of life as lived with: …