End-Of-Life Care Costs In U.S. Comparable To Europe And CanadaCJ Arlotta
Costs of End-of-Life CareThawani R.doi:10.3109/15360288.2012.703293ThawaniRajattaylorJournal of Pain & Palliative Care PharmacotherapyRajat Thawani. (2012) Costs of End-of-Life Care. Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy 26 , 296-297 /...
Costs and end-of-life care in the NICU: lessons for the MICU? Neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and medical intensive care units (MICUs) are both very expensive. The cost-effectiveness of NICUs has been extensivel... JD Lantos,WL Meadow - 《Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics》...
—Dr Emanuel's1 characterization of the methods and findings of SUPPORT (The Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments) might mislead the reader as to the relevance of SUPPORT for understanding costs at the end of life.2-5 To date, SUPPORT publications ...
As part of the Health Care Use at the End-of-Life in Western Canada Study, the Western Office of the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) collaborated with the ministries or departments of health in British Columbia, , Saskatchewan and Manitoba to characterize selected aspects of heal...
Health care costs are rising at an unsustainable rate in the United States. A high proportion of these costs occur in the last year of a person's life, and about half of these costs are incurred from inpatient medical services. There is concern that such a high proportion of these costs ...
the existing data suggest that hospice and advance directives can save between 25% and 40% of health care costs during the last month of life, with savings decreasing to 10% to 17% over the last 6 months of life and decreasing further to 0% to 10% over the last 12 months of life. ...
In Canada, health system restructuring has led to a greater focus on home-based palliative care as an alternative to institutionalised palliative care. However, little is known about the effect of this change on end-of-life care costs and the extent to which the financial burden of care has...
Decision-makers can manage high expenditures as deaths increase and improve patient experience if they understand what drives end-of-life costs and if services find a better balance between treating disease and managing symptoms, according to a new polic
As the disease progresses or patients age, disease-related symptoms may become increasingly burdensome, and these patients may benefit from hospice or palliative care. NPs can guide individuals in this process to optimize care and support at the end of life....