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Managed Care, Hospice Use, Site of Death, and Medical Expenditures in the Last Year of Life
Author(s) -
Ezekiel J. Emanuel,
Arlene S. Ash,
Wei Yu,
G. Scott Gazelle,
Norman G. Levinsky,
Olga Saynina,
Mark McClellan,
Mark A. Moskowitz
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinte.162.15.1722
Subject(s) - medicine , death certificate , gerontology , palliative care , place of death , hospice care , managed care , end of life care , family medicine , payment , health care , cause of death , demography , disease , nursing , finance , sociology , economics , economic growth , pathology
We examined deaths of Medicare beneficiaries in Massachusetts and California to evaluate the effect of managed care on the use of hospice and site of death and to determine how hospice affects the expenditures for the last year of life.

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