2024
Use of Hospice and End-of-Life Care Quality Among Medical Centers with High Versus Lower Specialist Palliative Care Reach Among People with Heart Failure: An Observational Study
Feder S, Han L, Zhan Y, Abel E, Akgün K, Fried T, Ersek M, Redeker N. Use of Hospice and End-of-Life Care Quality Among Medical Centers with High Versus Lower Specialist Palliative Care Reach Among People with Heart Failure: An Observational Study. Journal Of Palliative Medicine 2024 PMID: 39515377, DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2024.0182.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSpecialist palliative careVeterans Affairs Medical CenterEnd of lifeCare qualityInpatient hospiceEnd of life outcomesUse of hospiceInpatient hospice careMedical CenterMultilevel logistic regressionFamilies of patientsAffairs Medical CenterHospice carePalliative careRetrospective cohort studyAdvanced heart failureBlack adultsHospiceCohort studyFacility rateLogistic regressionStudy outcomesObservational studyCareHeart failure
1999
Who Dies at Home? Determinants of Site of Death for Community‐Based Long‐Term Care Patients
Fried T, Pollack D, Drickamer M, Tinetti M. Who Dies at Home? Determinants of Site of Death for Community‐Based Long‐Term Care Patients. Journal Of The American Geriatrics Society 1999, 47: 25-29. PMID: 9920226, DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1999.tb01897.x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSite of deathInpatient hospiceLong-term care patientsCommunity-based long-term care programsDependent functional statusPatients 65 yearsChronic lung diseaseCoronary artery diseaseYear of admissionCommunity-based long-term careLong-term care programsLong-term careCohort studyArtery diseaseCare patientsHome deathLung diseaseFunctional statusPatient preferencesHomecare patientsFemale genderTerminal careMAIN OUTCOMECare needsNursing homes