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Racial Differences in Hospice Revocation to Pursue Aggressive Care

Author(s) -

Kimberly S. Johnson

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

archives of internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3679

pISSN - 0003-9926

DOI - 10.1001/archinternmed.2007.36

Subject(s) - medicine , hospice care , palliative care , odds ratio , end of life care , advance care planning , family medicine , odds , confidence interval , intervention (counseling) , gerontology , logistic regression , nursing

Hospice provides supportive care to terminally ill patients at the end of life. However, some enrollees leave hospice before death in search of therapies that may prolong survival. Because of a greater preference for life-sustaining therapies at the end of life, African American patients may be more likely than white patients to withdraw from hospice to seek life-prolonging therapies.

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