Tracking improvement in the care of chronically ill patients a Dartmouth Atlas brief on Medicare beneficiaries near the end of life
This Dartmouth Atlas brief and accompanying data release (www.dartmouthatlas.org) demonstrate that improvements in care have occurred rapidly for Medicare patients in their last six months of life. Overall, patients spent fewer days in the hospital and more received hospice services in 2010 compared...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Lebanon, N.H.]
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
2013, June 12, 2013
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| Summary: | This Dartmouth Atlas brief and accompanying data release (www.dartmouthatlas.org) demonstrate that improvements in care have occurred rapidly for Medicare patients in their last six months of life. Overall, patients spent fewer days in the hospital and more received hospice services in 2010 compared to 2007. These changes reflect the preferences of most patients to spend their last weeks and months in a home like environment whenever possible, avoiding procedures that have little chance of improving the quality or length of their lives. But the pace of change varied across hospitals, with some experiencing rapid change while other health systems showed little improvement |
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| Physical Description: | 1 PDF file (4 pages) |