Survival of Medicare Patients after Enrollment in Hospice Programs

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A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation

1987 • 44,619 citations

Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences

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Exploratory Data Analysis

1977 • 12,265 citations

Adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative databases

1992 • 10,174 citations

Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations

1958 • 7,673 citations

The SUPPORT Prognostic Model: Objective Estimates of Survival for Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults

1995 • 565 citations

Comorbidities, complications, and coding bias. Does the number of diagnosis codes matter in predicting in-hospital mortality?

1992 • 459 citations

Bias in the Coding of Hospital Discharge Data and Its Implications for Quality Assessment

1994 • 348 citations

Clinical Symptoms and Length of Survival in Patients With Terminal Cancer

1988 • 328 citations

An alternative in terminal care: Results of the national hospice study

1986 • 287 citations

Comparing the Quality of Death for Hospice and Non-Hospice Cancer Patients

1988 • 213 citations

Accuracy of Predictions of Survival in Later Stages of Cancer

1972 • 209 citations

Estimate of survival of patients admitted to a Palliative Care Unit: A prospective study

1992 • 201 citations

Predicting Life Span for Applicants to

1988 • 181 citations

Cost savings in hospice: final results of the National Hospice Study.

1985 • 123 citations

Hospice Role in Alleviating the Emotional Stress of Terminal Patients and Their Families

1985 • 117 citations

Determinants of Site of Death Among Hospice Cancer Patients

1983 • 114 citations

Need satisfaction in terminal care settings

1991 • 101 citations

Prediction of life-expectancy in hospice patients: identification of novel prognostic factors

1993 • 100 citations

Timing of referral of terminally Ill patients to an outpatient hospice

1994 • 99 citations

Factors affecting place of death of hospice and non-hospice cancer patients.

1989 • 97 citations

Accurate prognostications of death. Opportunities and challenges for clinicians.

1995 • 93 citations

The effects of hospice coverage on Medicare expenditures.

1992 • 93 citations

Interpreting Hazard Rate Models

1993 • 82 citations

Factors Associated with Length of Survival among 1081 Terminally Ill Cancer Patients

1995 • 71 citations

Hospice Home Care Cost Savings to Third-Party Insurers

1984 • 66 citations

The Hospice experiment

1988 • 65 citations

Rx for Dying: the Case for Hospice

1988 • 56 citations

Estimation of Survival Time in Terminal Cancer Patients: An Impedance to Hospice Admissions?

1990 • 53 citations

The use of physiologic measures and demographic variables to predict longevity among inpatient hospice applicants

1989 • 47 citations

Utilization and charges for terminal cancer patients in Rhode Island.

1984 • 45 citations

The Physician’s Responsibility under the New Medicare Reimbursement for Hospice Care

1984 • 37 citations

Clinical symptoms and length of survival in patients with terminal cancer

1988 • 33 citations

Predicting life span for applicants to inpatient hospice

1988 • 29 citations

Inaccurate predictions of life expectancy. Dilemmas and opportunities

1988 • 29 citations

Estimation of Survival Time in Terminal Cancer Patients

1991 • 28 citations

Medicare hospice benefit: early program experiences.

1988 • 27 citations

Referral and survival of patients accepted by a terminal care support team.

1984 • 26 citations

An evaluation of hospices in the New York State Hospice Demonstration Program.

1984 • 23 citations

Physician Reported Incentives and Disincentives for Referring Patients to Hospice

1990 • 23 citations

A Challenge for the Hospice Movement

1980 • 23 citations

Hospice costs and medicare reimbursement: an application of break-even analysis.

1989 • 11 citations

Physician Reported Incentives and Disincentives

1991 • 11 citations

Characteristics of Patients in a Long-Term Care Hospice Setting

1990 • 10 citations

Characteristics of Patients in a Long-Term Care Hospice Setting

1991 • 2 citations