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Closing the Gap in Hospice Utilization for the Minority Medicare Population
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 2019 Background: Medicare spends about 20% more on the last year of life for Black and Hispanic people than White people. With lower hospice utilization rates, racial/ethnic minorities receive fewer hospice-related benefits such as lesser symptoms, lower ...
M. Courtney Hughes PhD, MS +1 more
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Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.External control (EC) arms using routine data can be used as comparators in clinical trials under certain conditions. The objective of this study was to assess the ability of an EC arm to replicate outcomes of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) arm receiving the same treatment strategy in advanced stage classical Hodgkin lymphoma and serve as ...
Olivia Febvey‐Combes +8 more
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ESC Heart Failure, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 733-760, April 2025.Abstract Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) reliably prevent death due to life‐threatening arrhythmias; this may become less relevant in people with more severe heart failure who are reaching the end of life (EOL). This review aimed to explore the ICD deactivation process and identify ethical issues, especially around the initiation of ...
Siobhan C. Murray +2 more
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Tijdschrift voor Gerontologie en Geriatrie, 2014 Doel In kaart brengen van verwijsgedrag en ervaren belemmeringen onder artsen bij het verwijzen van terminale patiënten naar een hospice. Opzet Vragenlijstonderzoek onder extramuraal (huisartsen en specialisten ouderengeneeskunde) en intramuraal ...
S. Gahar +2 more
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"My Preference would be to be at Home": Patients' Experiences of their Hospice at Home Care [PDF]
, 2014 This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.A specialist 'Hospice at Home' (HaH) service commenced in 2006 in Mid West Ireland whereby participants received palliative care from a specialist team in their own home.
Armstrong, Claire +5 more
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Epilepsia, EarlyView.Abstract Objective Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) are associated with high premature mortality and increased risk of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). However, epidemiological data remain limited, particularly for specific syndromes such as Dravet syndrome (DS), Lennox–Gastaut syndrome (LGS), and infantile epileptic ...
Pierludovico Moro +5 more
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Behavioral Sciences, 2017 Near the end of life, hospice care reduces symptom-related distress and hospitalizations while improving caregiving outcomes. However, it takes time for a person to gain a sufficient understanding of hospice and decide to enroll.
Carey Candrian +5 more
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The Effect of Hospice on End-of-Life Costs for Terminal Medicare Patients With HIV
Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2020 One-quarter of annual Medicare expenses in the traditional program (non-Medicare Advantage) are expended for 5% of Medicare enrollees, with much of this expenditure occurring in the last year of life. Hospice use may reduce end-of-life costs.
Arleen A. Leibowitz PhD +2 more
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Irish Hospice Foundation Perspectives Series: Number 1
, 2013 First report of the Irish Hospice Foundation's perspectives series examines palliative care from an all encompassing perspective which includes primary, secondary and tertiary care; patients of all ages and diagnoses; and all care settings.
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Epilepsia, EarlyView.Abstract Objective To assess the added diagnostic value of magnetoencephalographic source imaging (MSI) beyond conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and fluorodeoxyglucose–positron emission tomography (FDG‐PET) in localizing the epileptogenic zone, with stereo‐electroencephalography (SEEG) and surgical resection serving as reference standards ...
Romain Bouet +10 more
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