Importance A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report found that more
persons die at home. This has been cited as evidence that persons dying in the United …

Importance End-of-life care costs are high and decedents often experience poor quality of
care. Numerous factors influence changes in site of death, health care transitions, and …

Health care for elderly Americans at the end of life is changing, but it still falls short of the
care that most patients want. Medicare beneficiaries with severe chronic illness spent fewer …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the degree to which variation in place of death is explained by
differences in the characteristics of patients, including preferences for dying at home, and by …

Background: Population ageing represents a global challenge for future end-of-life care.
Given new trends in place of death, it is vital to examine where the rising number of deaths …

Background We examined deaths of Medicare beneficiaries in Massachusetts and
California to evaluate the effect of managed care on the use of hospice and site of death and …

Objectives To determine the association between homebound status and mortality. Design
Cross‐sectional. Setting Annual, in‐person interviews. Participants A nationally …

In 2015 an estimated 2.7 million people in the United States (1 percent of the population)
died. Although decedents' illness experience varies substantially, important trends in care at …

OBJECTIVES: To determine factors associated with the type of hospice care received in the
last days of life and, in particular, how the timing of referral influences the use of continuous …

Objective: We sought to test whether variations across regions in end-of-life (EOL) treatment
intensity are associated with regional differences in patient preferences for EOL care …