Hospice Care in Assisted Living Facilities Versus at Home: Results of a Multisite Cohort Study.

Objectives: To compare residents of assisted living facilities receiving hospice with people receiving hospice care at home.

Design: Electronic health record-based retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Nonprofit hospices in the Coalition of Hospices Organized to Investigate Comparative Effectiveness network.

Can hospices predict which patients will die within six months?

Objective: To determine whether it is possible to predict, at the time of hospice enrollment, which patients will die within 6 months.

Design: Electronic health record-based retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Patients admitted to 10 hospices in the CHOICE network (Coalition of Hospices Organized to Investigate Comparative Effectiveness).