Association between advance directives and U.S. Medicare end-of-life expenditures varies across regions
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 16:30
in Health & Medicine
U.S. Medicare patients with advance directives specifying limits in treatment who lived in regions with higher levels of end-of-life spending were less likely to have an in-hospital death, averaged significantly lower end-of-life Medicare spending and had significantly greater odds of hospice use than decedents without advance directives in these regions, according to a new study.
