What Is Known About the Economics of End-of-Life Care for Medicare Beneficiaries?

A controlled trial to improve care for seriously ill hospitalized patients. The study to understand prognoses and preferences for outcomes and risks of treatments (SUPPORT). The SUPPORT Principal Investigators

1995 • 2,794 citations

A Controlled Trial to Improve Care for Seriously III Hospitalized Patients

1995 • 2,163 citations

Relationship Between Cancer Patients' Predictions of Prognosis and Their Treatment Preferences

1998 • 1,270 citations

The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care

1998 • 883 citations

Quality Improvement in Chronic Illness Care: A Collaborative Approach

2001 • 735 citations

Trends in Medicare Payments in the Last Year of Life

1993 • 726 citations

Terminal cancer care and patients' preference for place of death: a prospective study.

1990 • 560 citations

Medicare Beneficiaries’ Costs Of Care In The Last Year Of Life

2001 • 542 citations

Prognostic Disclosure to Patients with Cancer near the End of Life

2001 • 523 citations

Profiles of Older Medicare Decedents

2002 • 482 citations

Evaluation of Prognostic Criteria for Determining Hospice Eligibility in Patients With Advanced Lung, Heart, or Liver Disease

1999 • 364 citations

The Economics of Dying -- The Illusion of Cost Savings at the End of Life

1994 • 346 citations

A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF HOSPICE CARE

1984 • 320 citations

Cancer patients' perceptions of their disease and its treatment

1988 • 310 citations

The use and costs of Medicare services in the last 2 years of life.

1984 • 257 citations

Cost Savings at the End of Life

1996 • 243 citations

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

1988 • 213 citations

A randomized trial of the cost effectiveness of VA hospital-based home care for the terminally ill.

1992 • 211 citations

Health Care Utilization in the Years Prior to Death

1987 • 158 citations

Cancer patients' insight into their treatment, prognosis, and unconventional therapies

1984 • 154 citations

"The High Cost of Dying" Revisited

1994 • 140 citations

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

1985 • 123 citations

Issues in End-of-Life Care: Patient, Caregiver, and Clinician Perceptions

2003 • 118 citations

Medical Care in the Last Twelve Months of Life: The Relation between Age, Functional Status, and Medical Care Expenditures

1988 • 114 citations

Determinants of Site of Death Among Hospice Cancer Patients

1983 • 114 citations

The high cost of dying

1963 • 109 citations

Utilization and Costs of Medicare Services by Beneficiaries in Their Last Year of Life

1984 • 107 citations

Impact of Individual and Market Factors on the Timing of Initiation of Hospice Terminal Care

2000 • 107 citations

Timing of referral of terminally Ill patients to an outpatient hospice

1994 • 99 citations

The effects of hospice coverage on Medicare expenditures.

1992 • 93 citations

Deterrents to Access and Service for Blacks and Hispanics: The Medicare Hospice Benefit, Healthcare Utilization, and Cultural Barriers

1995 • 82 citations

End-of-Life Discussions and Preferences Among Persons With HIV

2001 • 78 citations

Hospice in Nursing Homes: A Facility-Level Analysis of the Distribution of Hospice Beneficiaries

1999 • 78 citations

Providing Care At The End Of Life: Do Medicare Rules Impede Good Care?

2001 • 77 citations

Attitudes of Older People Toward Suicide and Assisted Suicide: An Analysis of Gallup Poll Findings

1995 • 75 citations

ICD-9 Code for Palliative or Terminal Care

1996 • 74 citations

Dying of cancer. The place of death and family circumstances.

1991 • 73 citations

The Use and Cost of Health Services Prior to Death: A Comparison of the Medicare-Only and the Medicare-Medicaid Elderly Populations

1992 • 64 citations

Medical expenditures of terminal cancer patients during the last year of life.

1984 • 53 citations

Deterrents to Access and Service for Blacks and Hispanics

1995 • 48 citations

Utilization and charges for terminal cancer patients in Rhode Island.

1984 • 45 citations

A comparative cost analysis of terminal cancer care in home hospice patients and controls

1987 • 45 citations

Medicare use in the last ninety days of life.

1992 • 42 citations

Dying of Cancer

1991 • 36 citations

The impact of payor/provider type on health care use and expenditures among the frail elderly.

1997 • 33 citations

Capitated Risk‐Bearing Managed Care Systems Could Improve End‐of‐Life Care

1998 • 31 citations

A Comparison by Payor/Provider Type of the Cost of Dying Among Frail Older Adults

1996 • 29 citations

How does managed care manage the frail elderly?

1999 • 27 citations

Patient Predictors of Hospice Choice

1985 • 27 citations

Treatment Choices by Seriously III Patients

1998 • 26 citations

Perceptions Of Barriers To High-Quality Palliative Care In Hospitals

2000 • 25 citations

Patient and Physician Characteristics Affecting the Choice of Home Based Hospice, Acute Care Inpatient Hospice Facility, or Hospitals as Last Site of Care for Patients with Cancer of the Lung

1994 • 24 citations

Differences in Patient Demographics and Expenditures Among Medicare Hospice Providers

1996 • 12 citations

Payment Code for Hospital-Based Palliative Care: Help or Hindrance?

1998 • 12 citations

Differences in Patient Demographics and Expenditures Among Medicare Hospice Providers

1996 • 7 citations