Background: Most people prefer to die at home, yet most do not. Understanding factors
associated with terminal hospitalization may inform interventions to improve care. Objective …

Background: High rates of health care utilization at the end of life may be a marker of care
that does not align with patient-stated preferences. We sought to describe trends in end-of …

Objectives To investigate factors associated with place of death of individuals in the Mount
Sinai Visiting Doctors Program (MSVD). Design A retrospective chart review was performed …

Objective We wanted to examine the healthcare use and non-elective activity in the UK
population of expected deaths over an 1-year period to highlight and examine the reasons …

Background: Long-standing concern exists over hospital use by people near or at the end of
life (EOL) related to the appropriateness, quality, and cost of care in hospital. It is widely …

Background: Patients who receive palliative care are less likely to die in hospital. Objective:
To measure the association between physician rates of referral to palliative care and …

Importance A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report found that more
persons die at home. This has been cited as evidence that persons dying in the United …

Background: Avoiding inappropriate care transition and enabling people with chronic
diseases to die at home have become important health policy issues. Availability of palliative …

Background: Patients with and without cancer are frequently hospitalized, and have
specialist palliative care needs. In-hospital mortality can serve as a quality indicator of acute …

Importance The idea that physicians as patients choose less-aggressive care at the end of
life for themselves is an often-cited rationale to advocate for less technology-laden end-of …