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Apr 4, 2025
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Feb 17, 2025
We conducted a review of English-language, peer-reviewed articles 2008 to 2023 describing variation in NH hospice use to characterize disparities and inform educational and quality initiatives to improve End-of-Life care in NHs.
Nov 7, 2024
We examined who provides spiritual care to African American hospice patients and caregivers. We conducted a pilot study with a community hospice in the South and interviewed caregivers, clergy and chaplains.
Sep 19, 2024
Using a nationally representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries, we examined the association between physician age and patterns of end of life (EOL) care with a broad range of EOL care measures.
Aug 14, 2024
Accurate 6-month prognostication can enhance access to hospice for people living with Alzheimer’s Disease or related dementias, including those who have a different primary diagnosis. Therefore, prognostication must be reconceptualized.
Jun 26, 2024
We compared treatment intensity between Black and White older adults with heart failure (HF) near the end of life, finding that Black HF patients were more likely to spend time on life support and die in a hospital than White HF patients.
Apr 25, 2024
Our study tested a sequential web-mail mode for administering a patient and family care experience survey in the hospice setting and examined its effects on response rates and reported perceptions of the quality of care.
Feb 12, 2024
We examine how the COVID-19 pandemic may have influenced the characteristics of patients receiving hospice care, the settings in which they received care, and their care experiences using national data from the CAHPS Hospice Survey.
Feb 5, 2024
Assessing symptom burden provides an opportunity to understand clinical decline,particularly as people approach the end of life. We sought to understand whether symptoms reported by patients can be used to assess decline in health.
Dec 4, 2023
Care experiences declined in 2020-2021 by a small amount for hospice patients without COVID-19 and by a medium-to-large amount for patients with COVID-19. Differences in care experience between patients with and without COVID-19 narrowed over time.
Nov 17, 2023
We developed a conceptual model for concurrent hospice and dialysis care and a corresponding resource list.
Sep 5, 2023
This article examines clinicians’ experiences around end-of-life situations that arose during the provision of care to dying patients with COVID-19 in acute care settings and the impact of these experiences on the clinicians’ lives as health care professionals over time.
