End-of-life care patterns shift for patients with heart failure in both US and Canada
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 21:40
in Health & Medicine
Health care in the last six months of life has become progressively more expensive for patients with heart failure both among Medicare beneficiaries in the United States and older adults in Canada, with a high rate of hospitalizations in the final six months of life in both countries. Also, more men are dying of prostate cancer are receiving hospice care, but that the timing of hospice referral remains poor.